Isaac Luria (ha-Ari)
1534-1572 · Jewish Thought · Known
Luria was a kabbalist of the town of Safed, known to his followers as ha-Ari, who told creation as a disaster. God draws himself back to leave room for a world, the vessels made to hold his light crack under the strain, and the sparks scatter into everything there is. Your prayers and your conduct gather those sparks back up, the work his school called tikkun, the mending of a broken world.
Signature
The position Luria is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Meaning
- leans Inherent
- Beginning of Things
- Emanation
Positions on the 8 axes the sources answer
- Society
- mildly leans Collectivism (33 on a 0–100 scale from Collectivism to Individualism)
- Mind
- leans Beyond Brain (75 on a 0–100 scale from Brain Only to Beyond Brain)
- Identity
- leans Unchanging (25 on a 0–100 scale from Unchanging to Changing)
- Meaning
- leans Inherent (75 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Order
- leans Vertical (30 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Truth
- leans Objective (75 on a 0–100 scale from Subjective to Objective)
- Opposition
- leans Concurrence (75 on a 0–100 scale from Sublation to Concurrence)
- Ethics
- mildly between Ends and Means (50 on a 0–100 scale from Ends to Means)
12 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Luria refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Non-Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Highest Good
- Union with God
What is the highest good? - Good and Evil
- Moral Realism
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - End of Things
- Transfiguration
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Knowledge
- Intuition
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Divine Command
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Divine Providence
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Beginning of Things
- Emanation
What is the origin of reality? - Time
- Eschatological
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Authority
- Charismatic Authority
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Language
- Sacred Speech
What is the fundamental nature of language? - Law
- Sacred Law
What is the ultimate source of legitimate law? - Death
- Reincarnation
What happens at death? - Role of Emotion
- Path to the Divine
What is the proper role of emotion? - Human Nature
- Redeemably Corrupted
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- The Divine
What is your primary bond and loyalty?