Medal - Wisdom of Kabbalah - Rabbi Moshe Cordoviro (The Ramak)

Medal - Wisdom of Kabbalah - Rabbi Moshe Cordoviro (The Ramak) Obverse: One side of the medal is decorated with 10 pomegranates, alluding to the 10 Sefirot and the important work of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero ( 1522-1570 ), entitled The Pomegranate Orchard, which explains the Kabbalistic concepts. Around the border is the verse in Hebrew, "And they who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, " Daniel 12:3, a promise of a bright future for those who merit it and a subtle reference to the Book of the Zohar (Brightness), containing the secrets of the Kabbalah, said to have been revealed by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the 2nd century teacher of the oral law. Reverse: The other side features the "Tree of the Sefirot", each Sefirah is represented by a circle in a pad-printed color characterizing each attribute. In the background are the first Hebrew verses in the Torah, the Book of Law, describing the Creation of the World, as far as "...it was good". In the top row of the script, the larger letters form the Hebrew word "Bereshit", meaning "In the beginning", and between them are the Hebrew letters forming "Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai", to whom the Book of the Zohar is attributed, and the words Torat Or (Doctrine of Light, referring to the Kabbalah). In the right-hand border, in Hebrew, is written "Wisdom of the Kabbalah" and in the left-hand border "KABBALAH". Size: 38.6 mm Weight: 31.1 gr', silver 999 Mintage: 888