Kabbalah and halakha
As copyist and arranger of his father’s writings and of the writings of the Ari, he preserved the Ari’s teaching, and his books were regarded, as the Chida wrote, as the most accurate and authoritative for the writings of the Kabbalah of the Ari. He wrote his responsa on halakha and Kabbalah to questioners from Egypt, the Land of Israel and all over Syria.
A rabbi and kabbalist of Damascus and the son of Rabbi Chaim Vital: born in Damascus, he served there as rabbi and judge and founded a large yeshiva in which Kabbalah was also studied. He was one of his father’s great disciples, copied and arranged his father’s writings and the writings of the Ari, among them Sha’ar HaGilgulim, and later moved to Egypt and founded a yeshiva there. He wrote responsa on halakha and Kabbalah and sermons for Rosh Chodesh, and died in Egypt in 1677.
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