"In the use of these Hermetic treatises, these Jewish scholars, though at times inadvertently, introduced Hermetic ideas into Jewish thought.Shabbetay Donnolo's 10th century commentary on the "Sefer Yezirah" shows Hermetic influence, as well as the 13th century texts later compiled into the "Sefer ha-Zohar", and in the contemporary Kabbalistic works of Abraham Abulafia as well as of other Jewish thinkers influenced by Kabbalah such as Isaac Abravanel who used Hermetic Qabalah to affirm the superiority of Judaism.