(Arizal) Rabbi Yitzchak Luria
A journey · 3 stops
See the journey on the map(Arizal) Rabbi Yitzchak Luria · 1534 – 1572
- 1. Jerusalem 1534 – 1541
Isaac Luria is born in Jerusalem to a father of Ashkenazi origin and a Sephardi mother. His father dies while he is still a child.
- 2. Cairo 1542 – 1569
His mother takes him to her wealthy brother in Egypt. He studies law, then spends years alone with the Zohar in a hut on an island in the Nile.
- 3. Safed 1570 – 1572
He arrives in the town of the mystics. In under three years he teaches a new Kabbalah that Hayim Vital writes down. He dies of plague at thirty-eight.