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...

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...

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

Alhambra Decree. After fleeing, the Abravanel family continued to play a vital role in supporting Jewish communities in Italy and other parts of Europe...

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

his privilege to ordain another, Moses Alshich, who, in turn, ordained Hayim Vital. Thus ordination might be traced for four generations. With the exception...

1534); ִHayim Vital the Calabrian (1526–1603), for many years chief rabbi of Damascus, and the author of various cabalistic works, including "Etz ִHayim"; Samuel...