Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
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Moses ben Jacob Cordovero was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in the Ottoman Empire in 16th-century Safed, located in the modern State of Israel
Cordovero's grave in Safed
Pardes Rimonim
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Pardes Rimonim is a primary text of Kabbalah composed in 1548 by the Jewish mystic Moses ben Jacob Cordovero in Safed, Galilee.
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
…during his lifetime, he was the renowned head of the yeshiva for Portuguese immigrants in Safed. According to his testimony in the introduction to Pardes Rimonim (Orchard of Pomegranates), in 1542, at the age of twenty, Moses heard a "heavenly voice" urging him to study Kabbalah with his brother-in-law, Shlomo…
Cover of the 2026 annotated English edition of Pardes Rimonim.