Halakha and responsa, Kabbalah, heading a yeshiva
Kabbalah and halakhic ruling together: he studied Kabbalah with Rabbi Chaim Vital and also received from the Ari, taught it to his students, and the Tikkun Leil Shavuot of the Ramaz brings a kavvanah that reached the Ramaz from him through Rabbi Binyamin HaLevi. In Safed he was one of the leading rabbis and one of the twenty “sages of the Beit HaVaad”, and Rabbi Moshe Galante the First wrote in his responsa that the conduct of the study house in the city should be by his word and that of other sages.
A halakhic authority and kabbalist, one of the rabbis of Safed and Jerusalem, a native of Safed. He studied in the yeshiva of Rabbi Shlomo Sagis and Kabbalah with Rabbi Chaim Vital, and also received from the Ari, and at twenty-three he served as a judge in the court of Rabbi Moshe Galante the First. He founded a yeshiva in Tiberias, served as head of the rabbinical court in Jerusalem and as head of a yeshiva in Safed, and his responsa and novellae on the Talmud were printed in the book Maaseh Chiya.
includes 2 inspiration linksThe generations follow the Rambam’s introduction to the Mishneh Torah. A dashed line is inspiration, not direct transmission.