R. Chaim Vital: The Ari's Chief Disciple and Transmitter

🧿 The legacy of the Ari was closely guarded, and thus tied up in, the life and works of his self-proclaimed chief disciple, the prolific R. Chaim Vital of Tzfat, the architect of Lurianic Kabbala.

A worn and annotated handwritten page of R. Chaim Vital’s Sefer ha-Gilgulim (The Book of Reincarnations), Russian State Library Ms. Guenzburg 1441 (sixteenth or seventeetn century)

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In this issue:

• A Kabbalistic Life

• Transmitting the Ari

• Between Orality and Textuality, Manuscript and Print

• Re…