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Isaac Luria
Sign in to saveAlso known as Isaac (ben Solomon) Luria Ashkenazi, Ha'ARI, Ha'ARI Hakadosh, ARIZaL, Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi
Ottoman rabbi in Egypt and Palestine
Key facts
- Title
- Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh, Arizal
- Born
- 1534, Jerusalem , Damascus Eyalet , Ottoman Palestine , Ottoman Empire
- Died
- July 25, 1572 (aged 37 – 38) (5 Av 5332 AM ), Safed , Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire
- Buried
- Old Cemetery of Safed
- Religion
- Judaism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Jerusalem
- Place of death
- Safed
- Occupation
- kabbalist
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- רבי משה.JPG
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- date of death
- 1572-07-25
- topic's main category
- Category:Isaac Luria
- date of birth
- 1534-01-01
- lifestyle
- mysticism
- Commons category
- Isaac Luria
- Commons gallery
- Isaac Luria
- place of burial
- Safed old cemetery
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- name in native language
- יצחק בן שלמה לוריא אשכנזי
- student
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
- nickname
- האר״י הקדוש
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- Reșița
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Encyclopedic overview
Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; born c. 1534 – died July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Palestine, now Israel. He is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah, his teachings being referred to as Lurianic Kabbalah.
While his direct literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute (he wrote only a few poems), his spiritual fame led to their veneration and the acceptance of his authority. The works of his disciples compiled his oral teachings into writing. Every custom of Luria was scrutinized, and many were accepted, even against previous practice.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isaac Luria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.