Mar'ot HaTzoveot is a 16th-century commentary on the biblical books of the Prophets, by Rabbi Moses Alshekh. In his typical style, the author first raises a number of questions on each passage and then answers them. While the Alshekh lived in Safed in the days of its kabbalistic heyday, the Arizal (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria) reportedly advised him not to study Kabbalah himself. Indeed, though the Alshekh references the Zohar as well as Talmud and Midrash in his commentaries, he does not focus on mysticism. His primary goal is to understand the text's fundamental moral and ethical lessons. .