Re: Maoz Tzur & Shavuot (part II)

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

> I've always found it quite ironical that Yitschak Luria (the Arizal)
> considered Caro's soul unfit to receive the 'higher wisdom' of his own
> kabbalistic system... When Caro tried to join the circle of Luria, he was
> bluntly rejected.


What is your source for this?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Maoz Tzur & Shavuot (part II)


> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:
> 
> > Probably the most striking instance of the widespread effect of the
> > printing press on Jewish liturgy is the entire Friday night Kabbalat
> > Shabbat service, developed and strategically disseminated ("published")
> > by the Safed mystics at the end of the 16th century.
> 
> Those mystics in Tsefat must have been excellent marketing gurus :-)
> An even more striking example is... the Shulchan 'Aruch!
> Written by Josef Caro, part of that same circle of mystics,
> the Shulchan 'Aruch must have been disseminated very strategically
> as in no time it became the authoritative guide concerning the Halakhah
> in virtually the whole world.
> 
> I've always found it quite ironical that Yitschak Luria (the Arizal)
> considered Caro's soul unfit to receive the 'higher wisdom' of his own
> kabbalistic system... When Caro tried to join the circle of Luria, he was
> bluntly rejected.
> 
> Concerning the rest of your reply, if this is what you meant in the first
> place, I totally agree.
> 
> Regards,
> Irwin Oppenheim
> 
> 

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