Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos

Isaac Luria and his Kabbalistic Fellowship

By: Lawrence Fine

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Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped shape the course of nearly all subsequent Jewish mysticism. The central premise of this work is that Lurianic Kabbalah was first and foremost a lived and living phenomenon in an actual social world. Thus it focuses on Luria the person and his relationship to his disciples. What attracted Luria's students to him? How did they react to his inspired and charismatic behaviour? And what roles did Luria and his students see themselves playing in their collective quest for repair of the cosmos and messianic redemption?

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"...among the finest works of recent Judaic scholarship." - The Forward "We come away from this book awed by Fine's scholarship, and with a better understanding of how Rabbi Isaac Luria, who wanted his writings to be concealed after his death, nevertheless produced ideas so powerful that they transformed the nature of Judaism for centuries." - San Diego Jewish Journal "Through masterly synthesis and organization, the author has produced the first accessible account of Luria and his kabbalah in English - or any language - that is also richly detailed and historiographically up to date." - American Historical Review "[Physician of the Soul] is the worthy capstone of a distinguished career spent studying the kabbalistic ideas of the sixteenth century and their importance for social and intellectual history." - Histoire Sociale/Social History "Lawrence Fine has written extensively on Lurianic thought and practice and with this eminently readable and well-researched book has produced a welcome addition to the scholarship on Kabbalism in general and Luria in particular...This book is a necessary source for anyone who wants to know something about Kabbalah and its important representatives other than the travesty of this fascinating side of Judaism that is espoused by today's popular culture." - ARC

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Note to Readers	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: Embodying the Study of Lurianic Kabbalah	p. 1
Rabbinical Scholar, Spice Dealer, Contemplative Ascetic: Luria's Life in Egypt	p. 19
Lamenting Exile, Striving for Redemption: Pre-Lurianic Safed	p. 41
Saintliness, Heavenly Communication, and the Divinatory Arts: Luria's Charismatic Religious Authority	p. 78
Lurianic Myth	p. 124
Physician of the Soul	p. 150
Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through the Performance of Mitsvot	p. 187
Tiqqun: Healing the Cosmos Through Devotional Prayer	p. 220
Communing with the "Very Special Dead": The Practice of Yihudim	p. 259
Metempsychosis, Mystical Fellowship, and Messianic Redemption	p. 300
Notes	p. 361
Select Bibliography	p. 445
Index	p. 469
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