Луццатто, Моше Хаим

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto AKA The RaMCHaL

Italy 1707 - 1746 Teachers: Rabbi Yehoshua Bassan; Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer Baal Shem Tov; Rabbi Chaim Vital; Rabbi Tsvi; Rabbi Akiva; Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai; Rabbi Isaac Luria; Rashi; Ramban aka Rabbi Nachmanides; Rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra; Rabbi Moses de Leon; Baruch Spinoza; Students: Shneur Zalman of (ChaBoD); Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon (1720–1797); Friends: Rabbi Dov Ber of the Volhynian Hasidim; Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement; Hillel of Amsterdam; Menasseh ben Israel; Enemies: Organizations: inspired the Mussar Movement; Chassidiam; Author: Mesillat Yesharim (1740) (The Highway of the Upright): 70 Tikounim Hadashim; Derekh Hashem (The Way of God); Maamar HaIkarim ; Da'at Tevunot; Derech Tevunoth; Quotes: "The whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah is only to know the guidance of the Higher Desire: the purpose for which it created all these creations, what it wants of them, and what will be the end of the circles of the world"; Comments: Chasidic Rabbi; The Book of Zohar scholar; playwright; Resources: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CD8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.kabbalahmedia.info%2Ffiles%2Feng_2006-12-29_bb-newspaper_kabbalah-la-am-08_ramchal.doc&ei=_zINUoy0GbGy4APBrICYAw&usg=AFQjCNHBj3e2w1MnoiNJPCTGBHr7t1MPdA&sig2=SRckc2w1G9aDkrOk0DQakw&bvm=bv.50768961,d.dmg; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Chaim_Luzzatto; Jewish Life in the Middle Ages by Israel Abrams, 1975;