R. Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643), who was born in Fez, first mastered the study of the Talmud and philosophic literature and then Kabbalah. He did not agree with the interpretations of the Zohar which his teachers provided, nor did he really enter this subject until he obtained R. Moses Cordovero’s Pardes Rimmonim. Thereafter, he was preoccupied with the question of the relation between Kabbalah and philosophy, until he forsook philosophy entirely for Kabbalah. He decided to go to the center of kabbalism in Erez Israel, but did not realize his wish until after he had lost all his wealth during the anti-Jewish persecutions in Morocco (1610–13). R. Azulai finally settled in Hebron where kabbalists from Safed had congregated. There he found the works of R. Cordovero and the majority of R. Isaac Luria’s. A close associate of R. Azulai was R. Eliezer ben Arha (d. 1652), who studied together with R. Azulai and assisted him in the preparation of Or ha-Hammah. R. Azulai's numerous writings were not published during his lifetime. Those books he had written while still in Fez, were lost at sea. Among his other treatises on the Zohar are Or ha-Levanah (1899) annotations and textual corrections based reasoning or early manuscripts and Or ha-Ganuz, an explanation of the profound expressions in the Zohar, which has not been published.

הסכמות: ר' יעקב יהודא לעווי, ר' יעקב ב"ר משה [סלאטקי] ור' מרדכי ב"ר ארי' ליב, ירושלים, ראש-חודש אדר תר"ם; ר' יהושע בצלאל [קאנטאראוויץ], ירושלים [בלא תאריך].