Tomer Devorah. ["The Date Palm of Deborah" - Kabbalistic ethics]
AUCTION 44 |
Thursday, June 25th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 95
CORDOVERO, MOSES.
Tomer Devorah. ["The Date Palm of Deborah" - Kabbalistic ethics]
Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1589
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,200
RARE FIRST EDITION OF A FUNDAMENTAL KABBALISTIC WORK.
R. Moses Cordovero (RaMa"K) (1522-1570), the great systematizer of Kabbalah, lays here the foundations for Kabbalistic ethical literature. Pivoting on the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy (Micah 7:18-20), the work provides instruction how one may spiritually identify with each of the Ten Sefiroth.
Despite its Kabbalistic underpinnings, Tomer Devorah became a widely consulted ethical work, the study of which was recommended by R. Israel Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, whose famous letter on the importance of Mussar was published in the Koenigsberg 1858 edition of Tomer Devorah