# The Kabbalah of Yom Kippur ## 1 Overview of Kabbalistic Symbolism: Ein Sof and the Sefirot ![[2 Revised Sefirot Chart.png]] ## 2 *Shaarei Orah* (The Gates of Light) on Yom Kippur > [!info] Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla > **Joseph ben Abraham Chiquitilla** (1248 – after 1305) ([Hebrew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language "Hebrew language"): יוסף בן אברהם ג'יקטיליה, [Spanish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language "Spanish language"): _Chiquitilla_, "the very little one") was a Spanish [kabbalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalist "Kabbalist"), student of [Abraham Abulafia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Abulafia "Abraham Abulafia"). > [!info] *Shaarei Orah* - The Gates of Light > Composed: Middle-Age Spain (c.1260 – c.1300 CE) > > Sha'arei Orah, or Sefer HaOrah, (‎שערי אורה‎) is Joseph Gikatilla's most influential work. It discusses 300 ‎names of God and is organized into ten chapters, one for each sefirah. Each sefirah has one main ‎name but may have many others. Some names are associated with more than one sefirah. The ‎Arizal called it "a key to understanding the mystical studies." The Vilna Gaon and Zundel Salant ‎recommended that their students study it.‎ > > Gates of Light, trans. by Rabbi Amiram Markel and Rabbi Yehudah S. Markel, 2023 ![[3 Yom Kippur in Shaarei Orah]]