JUDAICA CORDOVERO MOSHE Sefer Pardes Rimonim 1780

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CORDOVERO, MOSHE. Sefer Pardes Rimonim. [Third edition.] Title within woodcut architectural border; woodcut diagrams in text. [4], 186 leaves (but with leaves 33-44 bound between 48 and 49). Folio, 19th-century leather-backed boards, heavily worn, spine ends chipped; marginal soiling. Koretz: Zvi Hirsch ben Leib & Shmuel Segal, 1780

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First published in 1584, "a comprehensive and systematic exposition of kabbalistic principles by R. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, (Ramak, 1522-1570), considered the greatest theoretician of Jewish mysticism. Pardes Rimonim is a synthesis between the major lines of Spanish Kabbalah, based on the Zohar, and elements of ecstatic Kabbalah, integrated for the first time in the work of a major Spanish kabbalist"--Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, page 791 (1591 Krakow edition). EJ V, 967-70; Vinograd, Koretz 6.