Brace Cordovero

Rabbi Moshé Ben Yaakov Cordovero (1522, Spain - 1570, Safed (Israel)), known also by the nickname of Ramaq (acronym of R abbi M oshe Q ordovero) is a Rabbin and Philosophe medieval, but especially one of largest the Kabbalistes of the Judaïsme.

Biography

Its birthplace is unknown, but its family was of not to be doubted established with Cordoue, before the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492. It is established and died in the city Safed in Ground of Israel, which would become soon, and in particular by its impulse, a famous center of the Kabbale.

Ramaq was famous for its extraordinary scholarship, as well in the Talmud as in the Philosophie, and this as of its more young age. In 1538, at 16 years, it was one of the rabbis who accepted to them semikha (ordination) of Rabbi Jacob Berab, the others being Joseph Karo, future author of the Choulhan Aroukh and Master of Ramaq in Halakha, Trani Moïse, Joseph Sagis and Moïse Alhish. He was the youngest child of these wise, which all enjoyed at that time a greater reputation than him.

The tradition wants that in 1542, 20 years old, a “voice celestial” urges Ramaq to study the Cabal at the sides of his/her brother-in-law, Solomon Alkabetz, rabbi, mystic and poet, author, inter alia, of the Lekha Dodi . Moshe Cordovero is thus initiated with the mysteries of the Zohar, and controls it soon completely, but it deplores there a lack of structure and precision in the lesson.
Il is harnessed then with the drafting of two works which will make its celebrity: Gold Yakar and By of Rimonim , completed in 1548.

Towards 1550, Moïse Cordovero founded an academy of kabbalistic studies in Safed, which it directed until its death, 20 years later. He studied with Isaac Louria on arrival of this one in Safed, and had like disciples of large kabbalists, among whom Haim Vital, which spread the lesson of the lourianic Cabal later, and Eliyahou di Vidas, author of the Reshit Hokhma .
According to the tradition, it also accepted frequent visits of the prophet Elie.

Works

Gold Yakar (invaluable Light), a comment of Zohar in sixteen volumes.
By of Rimonim (Field of grenades). The grenade presents a particular symbolic system in the Judaism: initially coriace, it contains a multitude of grains, each one getting a delicious taste in oneself. This work is a systematization of all the systems of kabbalistic thought, origins at the time of Cordovero Brace. This one tries moreover to reconcile the former schools of thought with the lesson of the Zohar, in order to show of it the essential unit and the philosophical base.
Il does not hesitate to affirm that the Rambam, largest philosopher of the Judaism, large opponent with mysticism, could not approach this lesson because certain keys of Wisdom were lacking to him.
To divide into volumes Dvora (the palm tree of Deborah, allusion to the palm tree under which Deborah returned justice), in which it uses the concept kabbalistic of the Sephirot in order to explain a system of morals and ethics.
Gold' erav , a justification of the study of the Cabal, and an exhortation to do it.
Elimah Rabbati , a treaty of problems kabbalistic.

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