Editing Jacob Ettlinger (section)

===Attitude towards Kabbalah===
Ettlinger expressed a positive view towards [[Kabbalah]], as can be judged from his first work, ''Bikkurei Yaakov''. In the preface, Etllinger explains that he chose the title because it had the numerical value of Jacob and Rachel, who are mystically represented in the law of the [[Sukkah]], with which the book deals. A similar belief in the doctrines of the Kabbalah is expressed in a sermon in which he urged early burial, because as long as the body remains unburied evil spirits have power over it.