Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Hebrew: חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus...

Ontario) First volume of Hayim Vital's Kabbalistic text Etz Hayim has been translated in The Tree of Life: Chayyim Vital's Introduction to the Kabbalah...

Abulafian system of meditations forms an important part of the work of Hayim Vital, and in turn his master Isaac Luria. Aryeh Kaplan's pioneering translations...

Lurianic system as arranged by Shmuel Vital, the son of Haim Vital. Eitz Hayim is the only work published within Hayim Vital's lifetime, the rest of his writings...

the 16th century Safed culmination of theosophy by Cordovero, Luria and Vital dominated and subsumed the previous divergent Kabbalistic streams into their...

of Spanish and Portuguese prayer book and the Sha'ar ha-Kavvanot of Ḥayim Vital; companion volume discusses Ḥasidic variants) A Modern Reconstruction...

of life (Kabbalah), a mystical symbol Etz Hayim (book), a primary text of Kabbalah by Hayim Vital Etz Hayim Humash, Conservative Judaism Torah with commentary...

Ashkenazi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero Ḥayim Vital Moses Alshech Abraham Cohen Pimentel Solomon Nissim Algazi Yaakov Culi Hayim Palaggi Chaim Yosef David Azulai...

(HaARI-zal) Taught in Safed. 1534–1572 Hayim Vital Italy, Safed, Syria. Foremost disciple of Luria. Author of Etz Hayim 1543–1620 Israel Sarug Spread Lurianism...

motive for harmonization was the Kabbalistic teachings of Isaac Luria and Ḥayim Vital. Luria himself always maintained that it was the duty of every Jew to...