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Isaac Luria
Ottoman rabbi in Egypt and Palestine

Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
Rabbi and kabbalist.

tzimtzum
The tzimtzum or tsimtsum () is a term used in Lurianic Kabbalah to explain Isaac Luria's doctrine that God began the process of creation by limiting the Ohr Ein Sof (infinite light) of the Godhead in order to allow for a conceptual space in which the Four Worlds, or finite realms, could exist. This primordial initial contraction, forming a "vacant space" () into which new creative light could beam, is denoted by general reference to the tzimtzum. In Kabbalistic interpretation, tzimtzum gives rise to the paradox of simultaneous divine presence and absence within the vacuum and resultant Creatio
Lurianic Kabbalah
School of kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572)
Ari Synagogue
synagogue in Jerusalem
Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
orthodox synagogue in Safed, Israel
Shalom Sharabi
Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist.
Israel Sarug
Jewish kabbalist, student of Isaac Luria (1590–1610)
Meir ben Judah Leib Poppers
Ottoman rabbi
seder hishtalshelus
in Kabbalah, the chain-like descent of spiritual worlds (olamot) between God and Creation
Partzufim
Partzufim or Partsufim (, singular partzuf, , from Greek: πρόσωπον prósopon "face" or "mask"), are "countenances" or "personas" of God described in the Zohar.
Nusach Sefard
Forms of the Jewish siddurim