 Leone di Modena, a 17th-century Venetian critic of Kabbalah, wrote that if we were to accept the Kabbalah, then the Christian trinity would be compatible with Judaism, as the Trinity seems to resemble the kabbalistic doctrine of the "sephirot".This was in response to the belief that some European Jews of the period addressed individual "sephirot" in their prayers, although the practice was apparently uncommon.Apologists explained that Jews may have been praying "for" and not necessarily "to" the aspects of Godliness represented by the "sephirot".