Overview Overview- Lurianic Kabbalah and Mysticism Primary sources and presentations Sefer `Ets Hayyim, Yosef Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Popularization of the Kabbalah- Two Early Modern Perspectives, Boaz Huss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Sefer Ha-Heshek, Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The Role of Marriage and Marital Sexuality in Lurianic Kabbalah, Lawrence Fine, […]
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After the expulsion from Spain, many Sephardic Jews moved to the Ottoman empire where they were welcome as useful economic agents (see above). Some settled in the town of Safed, a commercial crossroads connecting Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus and Beirut. A sixteenth century Italian Jew, Moses Bosola, reported that- The city [of Safed] is filled with […]