Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Morris M. Faierstein
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Here are first-time English translations of the autobiographical works of two important and influential Jewish mystics. In The Book of Visions Rabbi Hayyim Vital (1542-1620), foremost disciple of R. Isaac Luria, describes his mystical experiences in great detail. In The Book of Secrets, Rabbi Yizhak Isaac Safrin of Komarno (1806-1874) recounts incidents in his life and visionary experiences.Tags
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- Hayyim Vital; Yizhak Isaac Safrin of Komarno
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- To our grandmother Clara S. Tritt for her ninety-second birthday
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- Jewish mystics, unlike mystics of other religious traditions, rarely describe their mystical experiences explicitly in their works.
There are the things that occured to me since the day of my birth, which was the first day of Heshvan in the year 5303 after creation [1542 c.e.]. - Original language
- Hebrew
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