Moshe Cordovero

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Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish philosopher
Kabbalist
human
rabbi
religious writer
burialPlace Safed
countryOfCitizenship Ottoman Empire
dateOfBirth 1522
dateOfDeath 1570
era 16th century
ethnicGroup Jewish people
familyName Cordovero
fieldOfWork Jewish ethics
Jewish law
Kabbalah
genre ethical treatise
halakhic writing
mystical literature
givenName Moses
surface form: Moshe
influenced Hayyim Vital
surface form: Chaim Vital

Isaac Luria
later Kabbalists
influencedBy Moses ben Jacob Cordovero’s predecessors in Spanish Kabbalah
Zohar
languageOfWorkOrName Hebrew
movement Kabbalah
Safed Kabbalah
notableIdea ethical imitation of divine attributes
systematic synthesis of earlier Kabbalistic traditions
notableWork Elimah Rabbati
Or Ne’erav
Pardes Rimonim
Sefer Gerushin
Shiur Komah
Tomer Devorah
occupation Talmudist
author
mystic
rabbi
placeOfBirth Ottoman Empire
Safed
placeOfDeath Ottoman Empire
Safed
positionHeld head of a Kabbalistic academy in Safed
religion Judaism
residence Safed
sexOrGender male
studentOf Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
surface form: Shlomo Alkabetz

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Kabbalah associatedWithFigure Moshe Cordovero
Safed associatedWithPerson Moshe Cordovero
Sefer Yetzirah commentedOnBy Moshe Cordovero
Joseph Gikatilla influenced Moshe Cordovero