Kabbalists

Rabbi Isaac Halevi Luria has become famous as the "Ari," the holy lion; Ari represents the initials of “Ashkenazi Rabbi Isaac” As his name indicates, his family originally lived in Germany, whence they had wandered to Jerusalem. There the man was born ...

Rabbi Chaim became famous as one of the greatest kabbalists.

Rabbi Chayim Vital ("Vital," from the Latin vita, life, has the same meaning as the Hebrew chayim) was born in the city of Safed in the Holy Land. His father Rabbi Joseph was a learned and pious man, who was a maker of tefillin; his tefillin were famous ...

His work is called Paradise.

Rabbi Chaim is reknowned for his compilation of the Arizal's teachings

A love relationship can thus be compared to an electrical circuit: should the resistance fall, the circuit will "short" and burn out

The Kabbalists teach that nestled within every created thing is an "utterance of G-d's mouth" -- the letters of Divine speech that are the instrument of its creation (as described in the first chapter of Genesis)

"I shall soon leave this world," said the great master. "The one who will take my place will say things that may seem to contradict what I have taught you, but do not oppose him, for his teachings stem from the same source as mine"

Nissan 30 is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the passing) of the famed Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542?-1620), author of the mystical work Eitz Chaim. Rabbi Chaim was the leading disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria (the "Holy Ari," 1534-1572) and the ...

Passing of the famed Torah scholar and mystic Rabbi Chayim ben Attar (1696-1743), author of the Ohr HaChayim commentary on the Torah. Born in Morocco, he also lived and taught in Algiers, Italy, Acco and Jerusalem, where he settled a year before his ...