Ginnat egoz

…26-year-old Gikatilla wrote his seminal Ginnat eʾgoz (“Nut Orchard”), taking his title from the Song of Solomon 6:11. In Gikatilla’s lexicon, the nut is an emblem of mysticism itself, while Ginnat employs the initial letters of three different names for methods of esoteric exegesis. Gikatilla’s book greatly influenced his contemporary…

Gikatilla’s work Ginnat egoz (“Nut Orchard”) provides some of the Zohar’s key terminology.