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    Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Hebrew: משה חיים לוצאטו; also Moses Chaim, Moses Hayyim or Luzzato; 1707 – 16 May 1746), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL...
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  • hence created and not part of God's self, energy).[citation needed] Moshe Chaim Luzzatto explains about all levels of Tzimtzum with his text “KLaCh Pischey...
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    without addressing the question of whether astrology is effective. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746) discusses the influence of stars on humanity and events...
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  • rabbi and spokesman Moshe Lobel, American actor Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746), Italian rabbi and poet, also known as Ramchal Moshe Many, Israeli urologist...
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    Upright") is an ethical (musar) text composed by the influential Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746). It is different from Luzzato's other writings, which...
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  • Samuel David Luzzatto Laura Luzzatto Dallapiccola, known as Laura Dallapiccola (1911–1995), Italian librarian and translator Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746)...
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    beginning of redemption, namely, Messiah Son of Joseph. The Ramchal Moshe Chaim Luzzatto wrote that the seventh millennium will be a time of rest, which will...
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    the Name") is a philosophical text written around 1736 by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. It is considered one of the quintessential handbooks of Jewish thought...
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  • "Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto". Azamra. 2007. Feldman, Rabbi Yaakov (November 15, 2015). "Part One: Da'at Tevunot – The Life of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto"....
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    Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero ‎; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader...
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  • things to a world before disaster within the Godhead. According to Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, in his book Derech Hashem, the physical world is connected to spiritual...
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    of Prague, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto and Nefesh ha-Chayim by Chaim of Volozhin) Mystical works Historical works, e.g. Shem ha-Gedolim by Chaim Joseph David...
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  • phenomenologically usually involves withdrawal from community. In more recent academia, Moshe Idel has challenged Scholem's historical influence in Lurianism, seeing...
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  • Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan Adler Schneur Zalman of Liadi Chaim Volozhin 1800s Nachman...
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  • of Kabbalistic theosophy, the "medieval/classic/Zoharic" (systemised by Moshe Cordovero) and the more comprehensive Lurianic, describe the process of...
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    which are desirable by the blessed one they are the Mikdash mamash" Moshe Chaim Luzzatto: "The holy one who cleaves constantly to God and his soul fires up...
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    individually solve the three problems" (a corollary of Occam's razor). Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was the only one to set down the sages' thought process in an organized...
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  • Christian Hedonist! Reformed Christianity portal Ethical egoism Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, a Jewish theologian with a similar view Talbot 2010, pp. 71–76....
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    enemy" (See Hylton, A The Prophetic Jew Abraham Abulafia, 2015). Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, says that the tree of the Tetragrammaton "unfolds" in accordance...
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  • Life") is a text of the teachings of Isaac Luria collected by his disciple Chaim Vital. It is the primary interpretation and synthesis of Lurianic Kabbalah...
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  • ancient source texts for the Zohar. In Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1990), Moshe Idel reassessed this, seeing implicit continuity between options in ancient...
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    whether an aggada is to be taken literally or not" (Carmell, 2005). Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746), discusses this two-tiered, literal-allegorical mode...
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  • in making a "dwelling place" for God in the lowest realms. In response, Chaim Volozhin, the main theological theorist of the Misnagdim, opposed Hasidic...
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  • Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan Adler Schneur Zalman of Liadi Chaim Volozhin 1800s Nachman...
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    works of Musar literature republished in Vilna: Mesillat Yesharim by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh by Solomon ibn Gabirol, and Cheshbon Ha-Nefesh...
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  • of the main disciples of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1746). As such, he was one of the main conduits of Luzzatto's teachings from Padua to Eastern...
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    Clay. The same essay influenced, and is cited by, Bruce Chatwin's Utz. Chaim Potok's The Book of Lights features a lightly disguised Scholem as "Jacob...
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    Levi ibn Habib (the Ralbah), Shelomoh Alkabez, Moses Cordovero, Moses Chaim Luzzatto; early Hasidic masters such as the Baal Shem Tov, Schneur Zalman of...
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  • Etz Chaim (Hebrew: עץ חיים, "Tree of Life") is a literary work that deals with the Kabbalah, written in 1573. The book of Etz Chaim is a summary of the...
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    26 Iyar (942) – Death of Saadia Gaon. 26 Iyar (1747) – Death of Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in a plague in Acre. 26 Iyar (1945) - 26 of Iyar - Day of Liberation...
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