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Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship

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Divinity Atlas. "Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/physician-of-the-soul-healer-of-the-cosmos-isaac-luria-and-his-kabbalistic-fellowship.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/physician-of-the-soul-healer-of-the-cosmos-isaac-luria-and-his-kabbalistic-fellowship

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/physician-of-the-soul-healer-of-the-cosmos-isaac-luria-and-his-kabbalistic-fellowship},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
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Lawrence Fine's study traces Isaac Luria and the Safed kabbalistic circle through the specific, documented chain of transmission by which Luria's own teachings reached later readers, namely through his disciples' written accounts rather than through any text Luria wrote himself, since Luria left almost nothing in his own hand. That attention to a real, checkable transmission problem, what we actually have of Luria is secondhand by design, is the book's real evidentiary contribution rather than a claim about its press. This record has not independently traced further scholarly disagreement with Fine's specific account of that transmission. Use it for established facts about Luria's teaching as it reached us through his disciples and the Safed fellowship's history.

Facts

Citation

Author

Lawrence Fine

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Publication Year

2003

URL

https://archive.org/details/physicianofsoulh0000fine

Source Type

academic biography

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Lawrence Fine's study tracing Isaac Luria and the Safed kabbalistic circle through the documented chain of transmission by which Luria's own teachings reached later readers through his disciples' written accounts, since Luria himself left almost nothing in his own hand.

Notes

The standard scholarly study of Luria and the Safed circle, and of how the teachings reached us through his disciples.

Claims Backed By This Source (232 claims)

This source backs 232 claims across the atlas. As facts: 184 well-attested. As cited relationships: 13 holds, 1 connected. Plus 34 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Qliphoth, 70 claims: 60 well-attested, 10 general references.
Articles, 35 claims: 33 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
Parts of the Soul, 29 claims: 22 well-attested, 2 holds, 5 general references.
Historical Figures, 26 claims: 21 well-attested, 3 holds, 2 general references.
Four Worlds, 21 claims: 12 well-attested, 5 holds, 4 general references.
Doctrines, 16 claims: 12 well-attested, 4 general references.
Disciplines, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
Categories, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 general references.
Metaphysical Positions, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Rituals, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
Religions, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.