Tomer Devorah

In the 16th century, some of the great masters of this tradition lived in Safed, a small town in the mountains of Galilee.

One of them, Moshe Cordovero, wrote a short book, Toma Devorah, The Palm Tree of Deborah, devoted to how a person should conduct everyday life.

Cordovero starts from a statement in the Bible.

The human being was created in the image and likeness of God.

I'll explain how he explains in the footnotes over here from the Pardes Ramon and from Moshe Cordovero.

Incidentally, we're learning Tomer Devorah at the same time he also wrote that Sefer, Moshe Cordovero.

But these are the elevated colors, the supernal colors.

What does that mean? So Moshe Cordovero explains, the same author of Tomer Devorah, In the Pardes Ramonim he explains that the different colors of the Jewish people correlate to the different spheros and each one reveals a different dimension of Hashem as he relates to the world.

So every Jew possesses some goodness which is an element that he has of Hashem in him.

which is the goodness that he has.

And I'd say I hear that question.

But I'd quote to you from the Ramak in Tomer Devorah.

The Ramak says that when we sin in the, I believe this is on Nose Avon.

He says when we sin, we create destructive forces.

And he points out that both of them, in addition to their Kabbalistic writings, they both wrote a book of Mussar, which is character refinement.

You know, Ramosha Korver wrote the Tomer Devorah and Ramchal wrote the Messias Yisharim.

And he says in that book, the reason why is because they intended that you first have to refine your character a little bit before you could get into this esoteric knowledge.

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