Ha-yelkhu shenayim yaḥdaṿ bilti im noʻadu : ben moreh le-talmid, ha-Ari ṿe-R. Ḥayim Ṿital = Can two walk together except they be agreed? : between teacher and disciple, Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Haayim Vital /
הילכו שניים יחדיו בלתי אם נועדו : בין מורה לתלמיד, האר''י ור' חיים ויטאל = Can two walk together except they be agreed? : between teacher and disciple, Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Haayim Vital /
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| Author / Creator: | Levin, Daphna, author. לוין, דפנא מחבר. |
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| Imprint: | Tel Aviv : Hotsaʼat Idra, [2020] תל אביב : הוצאת אידרא, [2020] |
| Description: | 249 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Series: | ha-Sidrah le-ḥeḳer sifrut ha-Ḳabala ṿeha-Ḥasidut: meḳorot u-meḥḳarim הסדרה לחקר ספרות הקבלה והחסידות: מקורות ומחקרים Sidrah le-ḥeḳer sifrut ha-Ḳabalah ṿeha-Ḥasidut. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12452063 |
Table of Contents:
- First gate: initiation and the teacher and disciple relationship - between East and West
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Intiiation in Eastern and Western tradtitions
- Birth of the teacher
- The nature of the studies
- The figure of the teacher
- The relationship between teacher and student
- The figure of the disciple
- Second gate: circles and intiiation in sixteenth-century Tzefat
- Introduction
- Poetry in Tzefat
- The way of pietism
- Audiences and communities
- Circles of pietist Kabbalists in Tzefat
- The circle of Ari and his disciples
- The birth of the teacher
- The nature of the studies
- The figure of the teacher
- Identity of the students
- Third gate: can two walk together except they be agreed? The Ari and Rabbi Haayim Vital: between teacher and disciple
- Introduction
- The hagiographic literature
- The Ari's essential doctrine of reincarnation and karma
- Causes of reincarnation
- The commandments
- Reincarnation for the sake of the generation
- Reincarnation as rectification of souls
- Reincarnation lineages
- Recurrent meetings between souls
- Karma
- Negative karma
- Negative karma and recurrent encounters bewteen souls
- Positive karma
- Recurrent encounters between the Ari and Rabbi Haayim Vital over the course of time
- Shared reincarnations of the Ari and Rabbi Haayim Vital during the time of the tana'im
- Rabban Gamliel and Rabban Yohanan ben Zakai
- Rashbi and his students
- A shared reincarnation from the time of the amoraim - Abaye and Rabbi Bibi
- An unknown meeting between teacher and student
- The beginning of the initiation and the studies
- "The voice of God is on the waters" - water-related magic and ceremonies
- Fourth gate: the paths of Rabbi Haayim Vital's initiation
- The rectification of Rabbi Haim vital
- Initiation
- The doctrine of the soul and its rectification in the Lurianic teachings
- Types of sin
- Goals of rectification of the soul
- Rabbi Haayim Vital's soul roots and reincarnations, and their ramifications on his life in the sixteenth century
- Introduction
- Rectifications (tikunim) given by the Ari to Vital to rectify sins committed in previous reincarnations
- The soul connection between Rabbi Haayim Vital and Rabbi Akiva
- Tikunim given by the Ari to Rabbi Haayim Vital to rectify sins he committed during his incarnation as Rabbi Haim Vital
- Stages on Rabbi Haayim Vital's path to attainment
- Solitary contemplation
- Unifying unifications (yihudim)
- Soul impregnation and additional souls
- Between revelation and concealment of secrets in the Ari's initiation of Rabbi Haayim Vital
- Exorcism of wandering souls / evil soul impregnations
- Fifth gate: "Teach me as I desire". Rabbi Haayim Vital as a student
- The figure of Rabbi Haayim Vital as a student - Vicissitudes time dynamics in the initiation of Rabbi Haayim Vital
- The emotional bond between the Ari and Rabbi Haayim Vital
- The ongoing relationship between Rabbi Haayim Vital and his teacher after the Ari's demise
- Beyond initiation
- Epilogue.
