This volume collects the autobiographies of two Jewish mytics, Book of Visions by Rabbi Hayyim Vital (1542-1620) and Book of Secrets by Rabbi Yitzak Safrin of Komarno (1806-74). Born in Safed and having studied esoteric subjects with Rabbi Moses Cordovero (1522-70), Rabbi Vital came to see himself as the foremost disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-72) and a successor of Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488-1575).
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