Joseph ben Abraham Gikatila

Castilian kabbalist, disciple of Abraham Abulafia. His work Sha'arei Orah (Gates of Light) is one of the clearest expositions of the doctrine of the ten sefirot and the divine Names. In Ginnat Egoz (Garden of Nuts), he achieved a synthesis between ecstatic kabbalah and theosophical kabbalah that profoundly influenced the school of the Zohar and, later, the Christian kabbalists of the Renaissance.