Eliyahu de Vidas
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Eliyahu de Vidas (1518–1592) was a 16th-century rabbi in Palestine. He was primarily a disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the Ramak) and also Isaac Luria.[1] Di Vidas is known for his work in the Kabbalah. He wrote the Reshit Chochmah a classic work of Kabbalistic ethics that is still widely studied by Orthodox Jews today. He lived in Safed and Hebron, and was one of a group of prominent kabbalists living in Hebron during the late 16th and early 17th-century.
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- ^ Fine 2003, pp. 81: "Cordovero was the teacher of what appears to have been a relatively loose knit circle of disciples. The most important Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Eleazar Azikri, Samuel Gallico, and an important kabbalist who studied with Cordovero for a short while in the 1560s, Mordechai Dato."
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- Fine, Lawrence (2003). Rodrigue, Aron; Zipperstein, Steven J. eds. Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. pp. 480. ISBN 0804748268. http://books.google.com/books?id=B2o8vqvrQOcC. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
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