Menorat HaMaor — The Lamp of Light
מנורת המאור
Author: Rabbi Isaac Aboab I (c. 1260–1340)
Date: c. 1310–1330
Preservation: Nombreuses éditions imprimées, première édition Constantinople 1514
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The Menorat HaMaor ("Lamp of Light") is a moral and homiletic anthology that gathers Talmudic and Midrashic aggadic teachings on virtues and duties, organized into seven "lights." Designed to make aggadic wisdom accessible to non-scholarly readers, it became one of the most widely read ethical works in medieval Jewish communities.
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The Menorat HaMaor ("Lamp of Light") is a moral and homiletic anthology that gathers Talmudic and Midrashic aggadic teachings on virtues and duties, organized into seven "lights." Designed to make aggadic wisdom accessible to non-scholarly readers, it became one of the most widely read ethical works in medieval Jewish communities.