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Luria was born in 1534 in Jerusalem, Israel.
His parents came from Germany, and, accordingly, he is referred to at times by the family name Ashkenazi ("German").
He had come to Cairo, Egypt as a boy after his father's death, and was brought up by his wealthy maternal uncle Mordecai Francis.
The boy, according to the legends which soon grew round his life, was a "wonder-child, " and early displayed marvellous capacity.
In Cairo, Egypt, where he studied the Talmud and the Zohar intensively.
Luria was called Ari Haqodesh (The Holy Lion) or simply Ari (Lion) by his followers.
After several years of rabbinic studies, at the age of 17 he found a Cabalistic manuscript and was fascinated by its contents.
He retired from all his friends for 6 years to study Cabala and to concentrate especially on the Book of Zohar.
In order to meditate on the mystic lore he withdrew to a hut by the Nile, returning home for the Sabbath.
Elijah, who had been his godfather in his babyhood, now paid him frequent visits, initiating him into sublime truths.
By night Luria's soul ascended to heaven and conversed with celestial teachers who had once been men of renown on earth.
In 1569 he returned to Palestine and settled in Safed, where he attracted a number of outstanding disciples, notably Hayyim Vital, who recorded his teachings.
Luria is best known as the founder of the Lurianic Cabala.
He wrote only a commentary on certain parts of the Book of Zohar, but his doctrine became known through the works of his disciples, particularly Joseph in Tabal and Hayyim Vital, and through the letters of a certain Shlomel Dresnitz of Moravia, which were published under the title Shivhe Ha-Ari (The Praises of the Lion).
Luria had mystic experiences of visions and communications, and he expressed his thought in complex imagery.
He taught three basic tenets.
First, creation came about through tzimtum.
Tzimtum was a withdrawal or retraction of God from Himself, thereby making existence outside Himself possible.
Second, evil was created through shevirat ha-kelim (breaking of the vessels); once the divine spilled over into creation, some sparks of being fell into demonic spheres, and thereby evil was produced.
Third, he preachedthe tikkun (restoration of God's unity).
This restoration was to be effected by the life of holy men and their observance of the commandments.
He also used themes and motifs drawn from earlier rabbinic sources.
His genius, however, lay in the synthesis he made of traditional Jewish teaching with a mystical outlook.
Luria provided consolation for those who had lost loved ones or had misspent their lives.
He did this by his doctrine of gilgul (transmigration of souls).
For Luria this was not a mode of punishment but a chance to cleanse and perfect oneself.
His doctrines greatly influenced Jewish piety and ritual and provided the Hasidic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries with its main tenets.
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He married as a lad of fifteen, his bride being his cousin.
