Etz Chaim (book)

The author of “Etz Chaim” is ARI ( Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi (1534-1572) - rabbi , Jewish theologian who created a new direction in Kabbalah ). But the book appeared thanks to his student Khaim Vital , who wrote down what he heard from his teacher during the classes of the Kabbalistic group in Safed and put it into the book.

The book describes a causal order of exit from non-existence of all things and the disclosure of reality to man in our world. The level of understanding of the world of ARI is visible from the lines at the beginning of the book: "Know, before the beginning of creation there was only the highest, all filling with itself light." The description of the creation process begins with a point - first of all. This fragment of the book is today known in many languages ​​as the ARI verse “The Tree of Life”

This book marks the beginning of the Lurianic Kabbalah by the name of the world that revealed it - Yitzhak Lurie Ashkenazi (ARI). Before ARI, Kabbalists revealed in their books the development of reality from its source to our world (from the perceived, the lights). ARI disclosed a method of comprehending reality from the side of the souls comprehending it (i.e., the Kelim or vessels of comprehension)

In 1936 , Baal HaSulam published a new Kabbalah textbook, Talmud Eser Sefirot , which is a commentary on the Book of Etz Chaim.

• Lurian Kabbalah
• Talmud Eser Sefirot
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