Sefer Šošan Sodot (ספר שושן סודות - Book of the Lily of Secrets). In Hebrew

Sefer Šošan sodot (in Hebrew ספר שושן סודות, translated as Book of the Lily of Secrets) is a significant kabbalistic text from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, whose authorship is attributed to a scholar named Rabbi Moshe ben Ya'akov of Kyiv (also known as Moshe ha-Goleh, or the Exile from Russia). The book represents an encyclopedic compilation of Jewish esotericism and mystical secrets. In the past, this work was mistakenly attributed to one of the direct disciples of Ramban (Nachmanides), but modern historical research confirms the Kyivan author, who completed the work around 1495. The original manuscript of the book contained exactly 1,756 short esoteric secrets (sodot). This number is not random, as it corresponds to the precise gematric (numerological) value of the Hebrew word Šošan (שושן – lily). The book discusses in detail more than 500 kabbalistic secrets hidden in individual verses of the Torah, Jewish prayers (including meditations during the recitation of the Shema Yisrael prayer) and the names of angels. The text uniquely preserves older ideas of German mysticism (the so-called Hasidei Ashkenaz) from the 12th and 13th centuries and combines them with later Sephardic Kabbalah. It focuses, among other things, on microcosmic parallels, where the unification of the limbs of the human body during prayer reflects the unity of the "divine limbs" in the higher worlds. The book circulated for a long time only in manuscripts. It was first printed in 1784 in Koretz (present-day Ukraine) by printer Johann Anton Krieger.