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Orchot Tzaddikim

Orchot Tzaddikim

1400 CE1500 CE · Rishonim

Nobody knows who wrote Orchot Tzaddikim ("The Ways of the Righteous"), one of the most beloved Jewish ethical guides of the late Middle Ages. Anonymous by choice, the author laid out the virtues and vices of the soul so plainly that the book has been read aloud in homes and study halls for five centuries.

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Orchot Tzaddikim’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.