''Tomer Devorah'' or ''The Palm Tree of Deborah'' () was written in Hebrew in the middle of the 16th century by Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, a

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kabbalist in

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. This short text deals mostly with the '' Imitation of God'' through the acquisition of divine traits, especially those of the

sephirot Sefirot (; , plural of ), meaning '' emanations'', are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the seder hishtalshelut (the chained ...

. The first edition was published in

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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.

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