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Ethical work by the Sephardic sage R. Sason Mordecai Moses. There is an introduction from the author that begins and concludes with pages of versified prose and text between. Kol Sason is comprised of forty-three chapters on such subjects as love of delight, love of the Lord, fear of the Lord, humility, the value of affliction, kavvanot ha-lev, kavvanot in prayer, the virtue of Torah, the value of modesty, the midah of love, of hate, of jealousy, honor, laziness and zeal, and much more.
R. Sason Mordecai Moses Shindouch was a Turkish kabbalist and Talmudist; born, 1747; lived in Bagdad, where he died in the year 1831. In addition to Kol Sason R. Sason Mordecai Moses was the author of: Dabar be-'Itto, a commentary on the Pentateuch and Talmud (2 vols., 1862-64); Mizmor le-Asaf, on the ritual (1864); "Imre Sason," on ethics (1891); and Tehillah le-David, a commentary (1892). A large number of his manuscripts were destroyed by a fire that occurred in his house in 1853. |
