Isaac Luria

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Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish mystic
Kabbalist
human
rabbi
alias Isaac Luria
surface form: Arizal

Ha-Ari
the Ari
birthDate 1534
birthPlace Jerusalem
burialPlace Safed
citizenship Ottoman Empire
coreIdea cosmic repair through human action
mystical intention in prayer
deathDate 1572
deathPlace Safed
developedConcept Sefirot
surface form: Partzufim

Shevirat ha-Kelim
Tikun
surface form: Tikkun

Tzimtzum
cosmic exile of the divine sparks
era 16th century
ethnicGroup Jews
surface form: Jewish people
fieldOfWork Jewish mysticism
Kabbalistic theology
influenced Hayyim Vital
surface form: Chaim Vital

Hasidism
surface form: Hasidic Judaism

Shabbetai Tzvi movement
Kabbalah
surface form: modern Kabbalah
language Hebrew
legacy central figure in later Kabbalistic tradition
movement Kabbalah
Kabbalah
surface form: Lurianic Kabbalah
name Isaac Luria self-link
Isaac Luria self-linksurface differs
surface form: Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Isaac Luria self-linksurface differs
surface form: Yitzhak Luria
notableFor founding Lurianic Kabbalah
influence on later Jewish mysticism
innovative Kabbalistic cosmology
occupation mystic
rabbi
teacher
region Ottoman Palestine
religion Judaism
residence Egypt
Safed
student Hayyim Vital
surface form: Chaim Vital

Israel Sarug
taughtIn Safed
tradition Kabbalah
surface form: Kabbalistic Judaism

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R. Moshe Alshich contemporaryOf Isaac Luria
subject surface form: Moshe Alshich