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    Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...
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  • J Street (Hebrew: ג'יי סטריט) is a nonprofit liberal advocacy group based in the United States whose stated aim is to promote American leadership to end...
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    foundational text of Kabbalah, was composed in the late 13th century. Isaac Luria (16th century) is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah; Lurianic...
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  • Lurianic Kabbalah (category Isaac Luria)
    Lurianic Kabbalah is a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Jewish rabbi who developed it. Lurianic Kabbalah gave a seminal new...
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    Maimonides), Kabbalists (Abraham Abulafia, Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona, Moses Cordovero, Yosef Karo and Isaac Luria), Hasidic rabbis (Baal Shem Tov, Schneur...
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  • Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (category Isaac Luria)
    Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a rabbi in Safed and the foremost disciple of Isaac Luria. He recorded much of his master's teachings. After Vital's death, his...
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    stage in the development of Kabbalah. Immediately after him in Safed, Isaac Luria articulated a subsequent system of Kabbalistic theology, with new supra-rational...
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    of Israel, the book Ets Khayim conveys the Kabbalah of Ha-Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) who arranges the traditional items on the seder plate for Passover into...
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  • Canadian actor Isaac Lea (1792–1886), American publisher, conchologist and geologist Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian landscape painter Isaac Luria (1534–1572)...
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  • Lilith (Lurianic Kabbalah) (category Isaac Luria)
    In the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria, it is said that there are many Liliths.[citation needed] Manasseh Matlub Sithon said "many Liliths and demons are...
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    going to Keter, Binah, Tiferet, and Chesed (some kabbalists, such as Isaac Luria, also attributed a path between Chokhmah and Gevurah). Proverbs personifies...
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    Vital, based on the teachings of his mentor, the 16th-century kabbalist Isaac Luria, who was said to know the past lives of each person through his semi-prophetic...
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  • esoteric explanations of gilgul were articulated in Jewish mysticism by Isaac Luria in the 16th century, as part of the metaphysical purpose of Creation...
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  • Tzimtzum (category Isaac Luria)
    is a term used in the Lurianic Kabbalah to explain Isaac Luria's doctrine that God began the process of creation by "contracting" his...
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    first complete rational synthesis. Subsequent doctrines of Kabbalah from Isaac Luria, describe an initial tzimtzum (withdrawal of the universal Divine consciousness...
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  • work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In the episode, Isaac Luria (Harrison Coe), a Jewish man, is killed by a group of teenagers working...
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  • MC (mistress of ceremonies) of Dominican origin Arianna Puello. Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish rabbinical scholar and mystic known also as Ari....
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    of Isaac Luria), the sefirot are perceived as a constellation of forces in active dialogue with one another at every stage of that evolution. Luria described...
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  • plural "tzimtzumim"). However, after the new teachings and doctrines of Isaac Luria (The "Arizal"), in Lurianic Kabbalah, these innumerable Tzimtzumim of...
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  • it does not give all of their names. In the Kabbalistic cosmology of Isaac Luria, the qlippoth are metaphorical "shells" or "peels" surrounding the sefirot...
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    Nusach Ari (category Isaac Luria)
    means, in a general sense, any prayer rite following the usages of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the AriZal, in the 16th century. The Ari and his immediate disciples...
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    Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-04768-3. Isaac Luria. Las Diez Plagas de Egipto: Cábala y Códigos en la Biblia Independently...
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  • businesswoman Israel Sarug Ashkenazi (16th century), pupil of Isaac Luria Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi (1550–1625), rabbi and author of the Tseno Ureno Judah...
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  • Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born. According to Rabbi Isaac Luria, the trees are resting places for souls; sparrows can see the soul's...
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  • United States Navy Commander. Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish mystic from Safed Johanan Luria, Alsatian Talmudist Roger de Luria (c. 1245–1305), Sicilian/Aragonese...
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    cognate to the Akkadian urbi, referring to a kind of soldier. According to Isaac Luria, in every generation the souls of the Erev Rav are reincarnated in numerous...
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  • of Adam Ḳadmon becomes an important factor in the later Kabbalah of Isaac Luria. Adam Ḳadmon is with him no longer the concentrated manifestation of...
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  • Nusach Sefard (category Isaac Luria)
    (Hebrew: מנהג "Custom", pl. minhagim) with the kabbalistic customs of Isaac Luria. To this end it has incorporated the wording of Nusach Edot haMizrach...
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  • Tohu and Tikun (category Isaac Luria)
    consciousness. Their concepts derive from the new scheme of Lurianic Kabbalah by Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the father of modern Kabbalah, based on his interpretation...
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  • Partzufim (category Isaac Luria)
    systemised the different Medieval interpretations of the Zohar. Later, Isaac Luria recast Kabbalah into its second articulation. Lurianic Partzufim describe...
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