Eliyahu de Vidas was a 16th-century rabbi in Ottoman Palestine. He was primarily a disciple of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero and Isaac Luria. De Vidas is known for his expertise in the Kabbalah, having wr
Tomb of Eliyahu de Vidas in the old Jewish cemetery in Hebron.
Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives the name to the Musar movement in 19th-centur
Mesilat Yesharim (Path of the Just): cover page
Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh-The Improvement of the Moral Qualities, by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Hebrew version 1167. 1869 edition
Orchot Tzaddikim-The Ways of the Righteous, anonymous author. First Hebrew edition, Prague 1581