Kabbalah · Yehudah Mas'ud (compiler) · The Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria) · R' Moshe Cordovero (Ramak) · R' Shlomo Alkabetz · 16th c. · Safed · Codex · Lurianic Kabbalah · Zohar Commentary · Haggadah Commentary
קובץ בקבלה
Ḳovetz be-Kabbalah — Arizal teachings recorded by a Safed disciple
1588 (Safed) · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
A 1588 Safed codex collecting kabbalistic teachings the compiler received directly from the Arizal (R' Yitzchak Luria), alongside teachings of his other Safed contemporaries R' Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak) and R' Shlomo Alkabetz, plus early-version material from R' Chaim Vital. The manuscript opens with a commentary on the Passover Haggadah (folios 4r–23v, continued 110r–117r), then a substantial commentary on portions of the Zohar from parashat Va-yera through Ki Teitzei (folios 24r–235r), and finally miscellaneous kabbalistic teachings (folios 236r–318v); a colophon on folio 117r records the date Hanukkah 5349 (1588). Gershom Scholem identified the compiler as Yehudah Mish'an; Yosef Avivi has more recently argued for Yehudah Mas'ud. A downloadable PDF facsimile is also available.
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