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This article lists figures in Kabbalah according to historical chronology and schools of thought. In popular reference, Kabbalah has been used to refer to the whole history of Jewish mysticism, but more accurately, and as used in academic Jewish studies, Kabbalah refers to the doctrines, practices and esoteric exegetical method in Torah, that emerged in 12th-13th century Southern France and ...
Building on Kabbalah's conception of the soul, Abraham Abulafia's meditations included the "inner illumination of" the human form [47] The Kabbalah posits that the human soul has three elements: the nefesh, ru'ach, and neshamah. The nefesh is found in all humans, and enters the physical body at birth. It is the source of one's physical and ...
In the 6th century of the 6th millennium (ie in the years 5,500-5,600 in the Hebrew calendar corresponding to the years 1740-1840 CE) the gates of wisdom from above (Kabbalah) and the fountains of wisdom from below (science, technology, and secular thought) will be opened up and the world will make preparations to enter the 7th millennium just ...
The Rabbinic ban on studying Kabbalah in Jewish society was lifted by the efforts of the 16th-century kabbalist Avraham Azulai (1570–1643). I have found it written that all that has been decreed Above forbidding open involvement in the Wisdom of Truth [Kabbalah] was [only meant for] the limited time period until the year 5,250 (1490 C.E.).
The theosophical aspect of Kabbalah itself developed through two historical forms: "Medieval/Classic/Zoharic Kabbalah" (c.1175 – 1492 – 1570), and Lurianic Kabbalah (1569 – today) which assimilated Medieval Kabbalah into its wider system and became the basis for modern Jewish Kabbalah.
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (Hebrew: חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, [1] October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus, 23 April 1620 [2]) was a rabbi in Safed and the foremost disciple of Isaac Luria. He recorded much of his master's teachings.
Like in the Rabbinic calendar, there are seven leap years within each 19-year cycle. However, the Rabbinic and Samaritan calendars' cycles are not synchronized, so Samaritan festivals—notionally the same as the Rabbinic festivals of Torah origin—are frequently one month off from the date according to the Rabbinic calendar.
Yaakov Zvi Meklenburg. Assumed to be a commercially produced reproduction, Germany, c. last quarter of the nineteenth century. Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg (יעקב צבי מקלנבורג) was an Ashkenazi rabbi and scholar of the 19th century, best known as author of the Torah commentary Hakketav Vehakkabbalah (Haksav Vehakaboleh).