The History of Kabbala Part 2 - The Cherem of the Sages of Safed

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

we're going to learn about we have over here the subtitle b'inyan ha'cherem she'gazaru chachmei Eretz Yisrael al giluy ha'ksavim m'chutz la'aretz. Regarding the excommunication that the sages of Israel decreed on revealing the writings of the Ari to chutz la'aretz. So v'einam melubashim tzamtzum she'hanhaga l'ma'aseh she'Rav Chaim Vital v'Rav Shmuel Vital b'yachad l'giluy ksavim shel Ari, aside from the opinion and the practice of Rav Chaim and Rav Shmuel Vital of not to reveal the writings of the Ari she'hisnaggu b'sh- shamranos v'kavdanus muchlatas that they acted in definitive carefulness layla farsei'm ksavim b'rabim klal afilu b'tochech k'siya even just copying over the manuscripts, certainly not publishing them. Gam chachmei Eretz Yisrael nahagu chomra yesaira b'firsum ksavim m'chutz l'chugam hamutzamzam hamutzamzam. The sages of Israel were very strict in publicizing the writings outside of their circle of those who learned the Torah s'sod. So this is aside from Rav Chaim Vital and Rav Shmuel Vital himself, there was a um a consensus of the sages of Israel not to spread the Kabbalah beyond their inner circle of the students of the Ari and their students u'v'ifrat b'yachad l'giluy ksavim m'chutz la'aretz, especially relating to revealing these writings to Hasiduts. V'gam b' For this too, we need uh the comments of what Rabbi now writes in his letters. Rabbi now writes about his trip to Tzfat, which he made in order to begin to learn the secrets of the Kabbalah. And basically, he was not given a very warm reception. And he, you know, he wanted to learn the Kabbalah from the students of the Ari. And they basically told him to get lost. So, here we have

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1. 0:32we're going to learn about we have over here the subtitle b'inyan ha'cherem she'gazaru chachmei Eretz…
2. 2:06the comments of what Rabbi now writes in his letters. Rabbi now writes about his trip…
3. 3:36Give me some of the sweetness and honey of the Kabbalah. You don't want to teach…
4. 5:39God raised up my standing in this association more than any other sage, T love of…
5. 7:10that he's the soul of Rav Akiva. Cuz every time Rav Chaim Vital saw somebody being…
6. 9:12revealing this to us. Uh so oh so now the question is how did I get…
7. 10:47because of his great cleaving and desire wanted to know and understand his creator definitively he…
8. 12:21these seven. I think it's because he had already left. He went to disseminate it in…
9. 14:25only from mouth to ear. Meaning I ain't writing to you about it. This is the…
10. 15:59From uh the time of eight years Now, this letter was written in the year Shin…

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