Elijah de Vidas

Rabbi Elijah de Vidas (1518–1587) was a rabbi in Ottoman Palestine, a disciple of Rabbi Moses Cordovero and Rabbi Isaac Luria, and one of a group of prominent kabbalists living in Hebron during the late-16th and early 17th centuries. He wrote Reshit Chokhmah (The Beginning of Wisdom) a popular kabbalistic work on ideal character traits, largely based on the Zohar.