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Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero ; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (born 1522—died 1570, Safed, Palestine [now Ẕefat, Israel]) was a Galilean rabbi who organized and codified the Zoharistic Kabbala. He was the teacher of another leading Kabbalist, Isaac Luria.
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Pardes Rimonim (Orchard of Pomegranates) is a primary text of Kabbalah composed by the Jewish mystic Moses ben Jacob Cordovero in Safed. It is composed of thirteen gates or sections each subdivided into chapters.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, the Jewish legalist and mystic, was the outstanding systematizer of the kabbalah. The place of his birth is not known; his father probably was among the Jews expelled from Cordova, Spain.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero ; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria. He is known by the acronym the Ramak (Hebrew: רמ״ק).
- Moses Ben Jacob Cordovero
One of the greatest of all Kabbalists was Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. He was born in 1522 in Safed, the city that was soon to become famed as a center of Kabbalah. At a young age, he already gained a reputation as an extroardinary genius.
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REMAḲ (MOSES BEN JACOB CORDOVERO): By: Joseph Jacobs, Isaac Broydé. Table of Contents. His System. Relation of Finite and Infinite. Rabbi of Safed and cabalist; born in 1522; died June 25, 1570. He belonged to a Spanish family, probably of Cordova, whence his name "Cordovero."
