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The History of Kabbala

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…
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The Ari - R. Itzchak Luria Ashkenazi
🧿 The enigmatic R. Yitzchak ben Shlomo Luria Ashkenazi, better known as the Ari, was a creative master of Kabbala who effected profound changes on the…
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The Safed Circle II: R. Moshe Cordovero (Remak)
🧿 Another important figure of Pre-Lurianic Tzfat was the Kabbalist R. Moshe Cordovero, who popularized Kabbala and created a new genre of Kabblistic…
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The Safed Circle I: R. Yosef Karo and R. Yaakov Beirav
🧿 In the hillside town of Tzfat (Safed) in the Ottoman-ruled Land of Israel, victims of expulsions from Europe found space for Kabbalistic creativity…
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Forces Shaping Late Medieval Kabbala
🧿 The period following the emergence of the Zohar in Europe was profoundly destabilizing to Jewish life in Sefarad and Ashkenaz alike, shaping how…
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The Emergence of the Zohar
🧿 With enormous impact on future Jewish culture, Sefer ha-Zohar emerged in the late thirteenth century in Castile and, within a few centuries, became…
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Before the Zohar
🧿 The Zohar emerged in Castile in the 1290s, but a somewhat-forgotten Kabbala blossomed in the decades prior, including ecstatic Kabbala, which sought…
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The Emergence of Medieval Kabbala in Provence and Spain
🧿 Mystical circles arose in the twelfth century throughout the Jewish world, but coalesced in Provence before moving into Spain.
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