Israel Sarug Ashkenazi (also "Saruk" or "Srugo") (16th century; 1590–1610) was a pupil of
Isaac Luria
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (1534 Fine 2003, p24/ref> – July 25, 1572) ( he, יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי ''Yitzhak Ben Sh'lomo Lurya Ashkenazi''), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as "Ha'ARI" (mea ...
, and devoted himself at the death of his master to the propagation of the latter's
Kabbalistic system, for which he gained many adherents in various parts of
Italy
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. Among these the most prominent were
Menahem Azariah da Fano, whom he persuaded to spend large sums of money in the acquisition of Luria's manuscripts, and
Aaron Berechiah of Modena, author of the ''Ma'abar Yabboḳ'' (''Ma'abar Yabboḳ, Ḳorban Ta'anit,'' i.). Sarug lectured also in various places in
Germany
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and in
Amsterdam
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. In the latter city one of his disciples was
Abraham de Herrera.
Sarug was the author of:
* A Kabbalistic essay entitled ''Ḳabbalah,'' published in the ''Maẓref la-Ḥokmah'' of
Joseph Delmedigo (Basel, 1629)
* ''Hanhagot Yosher,'' or ''Tiḳḳun Ḳeri,'' or ''Ḳeri Miḳra'' (Salonica, 1752), hodegetics to asceticism
* ''Ḳonṭres Ne'im Zemirot Yisrael,'' a Kabbalistic commentary on three of Luria's
piyyutim
A ''piyyut'' or ''piyut'' (plural piyyutim or piyutim, he, פִּיּוּטִים / פיוטים, פִּיּוּט / פיוט ; from Greek ποιητής ''poiētḗs'' "poet") is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, ch ...
for
Sabbath
References
Its bibliography:
*
Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816, Prostějov, Moravia, Austrian Empire – 24 January 1907, Berlin) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider ( 1782; ...
, Cat. Bodl. col. 1173;
*
Grätz, Gesch. x. 420;
*
Fuenn, ''Keneset Yisrael'', p. 700.
External links
Notes on the Study of Later Kabbalah in English: The Safed Period & Lurianic KabbalahWhich Lurianic Kabbalah?
Kabbalists
16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
Isaac Luria
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