Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534 –
July 25 1572) was a
Jewish mystic in
Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute (he only wrote a few poems), his fame led to the school and all its works being named after him. The main popularizer of his ideas was
Hayim Vital, though Vital's claim to be the official interpreter of the Lurianic system was not undisputed.
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