Tomer Devorah

{{Short description|Book by Moses Cordovero}}

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Tomer Devorah or The Palm Tree of Deborah ({{langx|he|תומר דבורה}}) was written in Hebrew in the middle of the 16th century by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, a Jewish kabbalist in Safed, Ottoman Syria.{{cite web |title=REMAḲ (MOSES BEN JACOB CORDOVERO) - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12672-remak-moses-ben-jacob-cordovero |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com |access-date=2 November 2024}} This short text deals mostly with the Imitation of God through the acquisition of divine traits, especially those of the sephirot.{{cite book |last1=Dan |first1=Joseph |title=Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History |date=1987 |publisher=NYU Press |pages=255–256 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg6m5.12 |access-date=2 November 2024 |chapter=The Safed School of the Kabbalah|jstor=j.ctt9qg6m5.12 }} The first edition was published in Venice in 1588. Although not widely read among Jews today, it is popular in the musar movement, which focuses on the individual cultivation of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy of God.

The title is taken from Judges 4:5.