178 Moshe Idel
approach evident in the works of these Habad rebbes recalls the views of a famous
kabbalist from the city of Safed in the Galilee, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (1522 –
1570), who emphasized the importance of performance while marginalizing the
role of understanding.
- On the emergence of this triunity, see Abraham J. Heschel, “God, Torah, and
Israel,” in Th eology and Church in Times of Change: Essays in Honor of John C. Ben-
nett, ed. E. LeRoy and A. Hundry (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970), 81, 89 n. 60. - Horowitz, Ha-Shelah, I, fol. 9a, 11a.
- Ze’ev Wolf, Or ha-Me’ir, fol. 239b
- Menahem Nahum, Me’or Einayim, 171.