Bidspirit auction | DE VIDAS, ELIJAH. Reishith Chochmah

DE VIDAS, ELIJAH. Reishith Chochmah [Kabbalistic ethics]. Few marginal notes. ff. 2, 326, 22. Few neat marginal repairs, stained in places. Contemporary sheep over thick wooden boards, rebacked. Thick 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 867. Amsterdam: Nathaniel Foa 1708 Eliyahu de Vidas was a disciple of R. Moshe Cordovero, doyen of Safed kabbalists. Despite its mystical overtones, Reishith Chochmah has become a popular classic within ethical literature. It discusses all moral aspects of Jewish life linking the motifs of aggadic and mussar literature with that of Kabbalah - and thus broadly disseminating mystical ideas. Eliyahu de Vidas was a disciple of R. Moshe Cordovero, doyen of Safed kabbalists. Despite its mystical overtones, Reishith Chochmah has become a popular classic within ethical literature. It discusses all moral aspects of Jewish life linking the motifs of aggadic and mussar literature with that of Kabbalah - and thus broadly disseminating mystical ideas.