IN HEBREW. RARE critical edition of the most important extant sources on the life and legacy of Isaac (ben Solomon) Luria Ashkenazi (1534-1572) [Yitzhak ben Shlomo Lurya Ashkenazi; Isaac ben Solomon Luria; HaARI Hakadosh; ARIZaL] - a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, whose teachings being referred to as Lurianic Kabbalah. Also contains a comprehensive introduction to textual history and historical value of the main source of HA`Ari`s life - The Toledoth Ha`Ari, by the editor Meir Benayahu (1926-2009)- an eminent scholar of the history of Kabbalah and Sabbatianism, the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora, and Eastern and Italian rabbinical literature. 245x175mm. 392 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Jacket yellowing, worn and stained. Jacket edges tattered. Jacket spine partly missing. Cover and spine slightly dirty. Spine yellowing. Spine edges slightly bumped. Text block edges slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on `the father of contemporary Kabbalah`, indispensable for any serious student of Jewish mysticism, is otherwise in good condition.