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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...
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    in Safed, Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero had been the principal figure in the kabbalistic community for numerous years. "Cordovero was the teacher of...
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    see the Supernal Light, with true vision and not with allegory. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522–1570) taught that when meditating, one does not focus on...
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    over the previous decades, led by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. There is evidence that Luria also regarded Cordovero as his teacher. Joseph Sambari (1640–1703)...
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    is called in the Zohar "the most hidden of all hidden things". Moses ben Jacob Cordovero describes Keter as the source of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy...
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    emanations of God's essence. In the 16th-century rational synthesis of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (Cordoveran Kabbalah), the first complete systemization of Kabbalah...
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    composed the Zohar Moses Shirvani, Jewish writer who authored a Hebrew/Aramaic–Persian dictionary in 1459 Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522–1570; Hebrew:...
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  • rationally influenced scheme of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero in Safed, immediately before Luria's arrival. Both Cordovero's and Luria's systems gave Kabbalah...
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  • despite the assertion that they are only vehicles to manifest God. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, who gave the first full systemization of Kabbalah in the 16th...
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  • Kabbalah replaced the previous linear description of descent by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero with a dynamic process of spiritual enclothement, where higher...
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