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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. Beige cloth Hardcover. Black lettering on spine. Cover slightly curved. Spine yellowing. Spine upper edge slightly bumped, bottom edge bumped. Pen underlining on several pages. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on `the father of contemporary Kabbalah`, indispensable for any serious student of Jewish mysticism, is otherwise in good condition.