• Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Hebrew: חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus...
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  • identification of the reincarnations of historic Jewish figures, which Hayyim ben Joseph Vital compiled in his Shaar HaGilgulim. Shaar haGilgulim lists possible...
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  • in the Zohar. The main popularizer of Luria's ideas was Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital of Calabria, who claimed to be the official interpreter of the...
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    Zohar and the teachings of Isaac Luria as passed down through Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. However, even this qualification does little to limit the scope...
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    mystical spiritual world. A studied example of this group was Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, and their rules of ascetic lifestyle (Hanhagoth) are documented...
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    Jericho by Joshua (Book of Joshua ch. 6). 29 Nisan (1620) – Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, a Kabbalist and a disciple of Isaac Luria.[citation needed] 29...
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  • is a study cycle based on the works of Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital and revised by Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai. This too is often published in book...
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  • person without Nefesh, a soul, i.e. without true faith: Similarly, R. Chaim Vital also describes431 this sin as excluding one from the World to Come, 'weaving...
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  • philosophers Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century...
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  • merely compilations of teachings attributed to Isaac Luria and Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. It has been stated that Buzaglo took part in the discussion, which...
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  • artist Ilan Shohat (born 1974), mayor of Safed from 2008 to 2018 Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), Jewish rabbi and disciple of Isaac Luria Shlomo Halevi...
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    Luria's most important ideas that he stressed in his lectures. Hayyim Vital Israel Sarug Samuel ben Isaac de Uçeda Hebrew: האר"י, meaning "the Lion"; derived...
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    expressed by Isaac Luria (1534–1572) and his disciples, particularly Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1543–1620). Luria greatly influenced both misnagdim and Hasidim...
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  • and Hayyim Vital were reincarnations of Messiah ben Joseph. However, the world was not yet ready for the coming of the messiah.: 29–30 : 191  Hayyim Vital...
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  • patron of famous mystics within the Jewish community (such as Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, with whom she was very close), establishing a court for mystics...
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  • based on the rules of study laid down in the Peri Etz Chaim of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, in the Sha'ar Hanhagat Limmud (chapter on study habits). In this...
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    the whole Kabbalistic scheme. On one occasion, as recorded by Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Isaac Luria convened his students in the traditional location...
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  • lunar month Av, Germany joined the war. The Kabbalist and rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital explained the seven classical planets in a more conceptual and...
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    idea appears to be a passage by Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, which read שמחת רשב"י "the celebration of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai" but was mistakenly printed...
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    Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (Hebrew: יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was the author of the last great...
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    where it was usually celebrated in a more modest family setting. Hayyim ben Joseph Vital wrote in the Gate of Reincarnations that "Isaac Luria, cut his...
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    doctrine are evident in the works of Isaac ben Samuel of Acre, Yehudah Albotini and Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. In Israel, Abulafia’s ideas were combined...
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    the book entitled Sêfer Chazionot – The Book Of Visions by Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital: "1577. Rosh Hodesh Kislev (November 11), after sunrise, a large...
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    commentary. Ḥoq le-Yisrael, a programme founded by rabbis Hayyim ben Joseph Vital and Chaim Joseph David Azulai in which, every week, one studies extracts...
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    Philistia, in an attempt to suppress Jewish connection to the land. (H.H. Ben-Sasson: A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2...
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  • French actor Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), rabbi and Kabbalistic author Joaquim Vital (1884–?), Portuguese wrestler José Reginaldo Vital (born 1976)...
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    than two years, the whole Kabbalah from the lips of Isaac Luria (see "Ḥayyim Vital," in Shem HaGedolim). Azulai often records where he has seen in person...
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    April 8 – Angelo Rocca, Italian humanist (b. 1545) April 23 – Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) April 14 – Rascas de Bagarris...
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    hiding pages from the book Etz Chaim "The Tree of Life" by Rabbi Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (The foremost disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria) in the Talmudic tractate...
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    only then is the blessing said while standing. Among kabbalists, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital likewise adopted the view of the ceremony being done on the first...
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