Moses Cordovero
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This article is about the physician. For the rabbi and scholar also known as RaMaK, see Moses ben Jacob Cordovero.
Moses Cordovero was a physician who lived at Leghorn (Livorno), Tuscany in the seventeenth century. Conforte[1] praises him as a good physician, and also on account of his scholarship and philanthropy. He was always eager to secure the release of prisoners through his personal influence as well as by ransom. Cordovero died at an advanced age.
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- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.