 The Safed mystics responded to the Spanish expulsion by turning Kabbalistic doctrine and practice towards a messianic focus.Moses Cordovero (The "RAMAK" 1522–1570) and his school popularized the teachings of the Zohar which had until then been only a restricted work.Cordovero's comprehensive works achieved the first (quasi-rationalistic) of Theosophical Kabbalah's two systemisations, harmonising preceding interpretations of the Zohar on its own apparent terms.