The History of Kabbala Part 8 - The First Writings of Rav Chaim Vital

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome back everyone um we're continuing in the history of the development of kabbalah and we mentioned that rizal for his um teachings were primarily in uh orally tarshiva and we mentioned why he was not able to write and we mentioned his methodology it was not necessarily in a orderly fashion and now we're going to um we're up to page dalid this is the beginning of the process of the writing of the mother vine regarding the writing of the judishima darik faryad it is known shahari leaned his hands on the header of him he ordained him he said you're the only one who really hops umina who looked up to us and he appointed him to be the disseminator of his torah the khan red son of smith i want to present to you the manner in which sat before that area and recorded his teachings until he was able to produce the torah of the arie aroha arranged and orderly in this farm so this is the manner in which the metal wrote down the rags nari gracias kasivasa sakitsura the first thing that wrote was something called kunchus kitzer by the way does anybody know how much time did spend with the ari all the works that we have from the roofhe tawatari was under two years one year and 10 months uh tishrei shin lam that's 15 71. until that result passed on yeah so he didn't have a student since earlier than that a good common book he did have students and one of them was really uh was known as rabisol saruk who apparently was grandfathered in before arizona told refuge you're the only one who could disseminate so there are certain traditions that that resource disseminated perhaps that vital was not given fully or or was grandfathered in but after abraham no one else was allowed to give it over yeah but he did have students um so here is the process racist he wrote something called consciousness that he recorded while he heard the drastics from his rabbi rasheed prakham these were just sort of subtitles or general headings the heimhivu habbasis they became the foundation sha allah area these sort of became the foundation of all the writings of the arizona okay now this conscious hakitsar the reprimitable refers to in many places well from the matic movement of sometimes even quotes full sentences as was written there are famine sometimes he even he sort of makes it concise and he summarizes it for example in the shah dammit in jerusalek he uh quotes the conscious at kitser and looking to say from sha'aram where amitabh brings from the above mentioned lashon and he testifies what he wrote when he heard it we're looking the shara cavanoise he says matsasi kosovo con tracy me pimarii i found in my countries um so that's refers to something called conscious akitzer which was the first writings of ital through these short impressions began immediately after the death of his rebbe on hey of tough shin lament base okay so basically if kaivital meets nari um you don't have further huh um i have it oh here hey here go for it go for it next so basically um as soon as arizona died on the fifth day of ab in seventy in that's when raphael began to write fuller versions looked like as we mentioned they met in tishrei hey shin lamin alef and this this rebbi talmud relationship unfortunately ended in the in the month of ab in the year shin lament base the ramaz bashari hack damaris the above mentioned rosh cassava kits or nimrods i wrote in short borashi when i'm coming to copy it over and to widen it havana's i realized i didn't understand the first thing he said meaning here's a here's an allusion to the process that the muhammad wrote it in shorthand first and then he when that reason passed away he wrote it further but sometimes he says look this is based on what i wrote shorthand originally and now when i'm coming to explain it i realized i didn't understand it in the beginning binion's non-hanara and therefore i'm just going to copy over the words as is okay now was rekham vital the only one who wrote the writings of the ari um so that is something that we have to explore so let's um let's begin that [Applause] in the book the praise allah there is a term that could be read in two ways either is kisa tamidim regarding the writings of other students whether it was done with the permission of the harry i lied one lashes everyone should write what they heard from eb so that they remember it ladarius everyone wrote what they heard from the rebbe so it's like estherom and they obey first he says everyone should write then he says only vital is permission to write and then it says nevertheless everyone wrote so you know how do you reconcile that harish first he wrote that he first he said everyone right so that you remember in future generations then he wrote no one has permission except for me town so it's sistira in fact look over there a story that happened through maisha yonah a student talari that there he scolded that he was writing his drasham that he heard from his uh from the rizal um and not within uh the permission of that re um and therefore um this work is known to us for the safer so it's very hard to understand what exactly was the opinion of that re did did the area want to tell me them to write or did he not want to tell me them to write what was his opinion um the inb gareth harav the here uh the editor sort of realized that the editor says that you have to explain what the result meant is that which he said originally that they should write it russia prakim subtitles not to put to book so that people could learn it so that was sort of the marash dayan's take on this that that rizal said everyone should write but only bequetzer udvar of kashak sas it's a little bit shver because arizon said that it should be not only for them but for future generations so it says could be the shot here is he originally allowed them and then he said no kasia rashford when he realized that they didn't comprehend um and they were just mixing things up however there's another gerson um not that the arizona didn't give permission to write except for alhamitah god didn't give permit to right now rizal said everyone correct but god then said no only rabbi khan vital if he's that or what he told them [Music] shot me and kobe the proper way to read it is that no um you could write it but for future generations only refinement was allowed to write it okay we'll pick it up over here next time you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com