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Ohr Ne'erav, Appendix The Introductory Material

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עמוד השער

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

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ספר

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

The book

אור נערב

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

The Pleasant Light

מהרב המקובל האלדי כמוהר"ר משה קורדואירו ז"ל

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

[written] by the rabbi, the divine kabbalist, his honor, our teacher, rabbi Moses Cordovero, may his memory be a blessing.

מתוק לנפש ומרפא לעצם מהדעות הזרות המתוארות למתרחקים מחכמת האמתי זה השער לה' לזכות אח"כ לכספ' אור יקר הוא המאור הגדול בפי' הזוהר:

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

[The book] is sweet for the soul and a healing for the bone, [a remedy] against the strange opinions described [therein] of those who distance themselves from the science of truth. This is the gate of the Lord (Ps. 118:20) in order that [we may] merit afterwards [the printing of] the book *‘Or Yakar,*¹ was not published until the twentieth century (Jerusalem, 1965 et seq.). which is the great light concerning the commentary of the Zohar.

footnotes: ¹ Cordovero’s commentary on the Zohar, Or Yakar,

והחלק הששי מהחבור הזה הוא קצור משובח ומפואר מההקדמות שבאר הרב זצ"ל בארוכה בימי בבחרותו בספר פרדס רמונים שלו:

Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah, Annotated trans. of Or ne'erav, Ira Robinson, 1994.

The sixth section of this book is a glorious and praiseworthy abbreviation of the opinions which the rabbi, may his righteous memory be a blessing, dealt with at length in his youth in his book Pardes Rimmonim.² at the age of twenty-seven.

footnotes: ² Cordovero completed Pardes Rimmonim