Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: The Book of Visions and Megillat Setarim (Classics of Western Spirituality)

By John Truman, September 27, 2011 5:42 pm

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Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: The Book of Visions and Megillat Setarim (Classics of Western Spirituality)

In this remarkable volume in the Classics of Western Spirituality™ are the mystical autobiographies-unusual in themselves for the Jewish tradition-of two influential Jewish thinkers, Rabbi Hayyim Vital and Rabbi Yizhak Isaac Safrin of Komarno. Now translated for the first time in English, these texts will capture the attention of historians, theologians, and anyone studying Judaism. Rabbi Hayyim Vital (1542-1620) was the foremost disciple of R. Isaac Luria, one of the most important mystics