Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun
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− | + | Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun was a student of the Arizal while he lived in [[Safed]], a friend of Rabbi Chaim Vital and the first make the hidden manuscripts of the Ari available to the public. | |
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==Releasing Kitvay Ari== | ==Releasing Kitvay Ari== | ||
− | Before passing away Rabbi Yitzchok Luria warned his student Rabbi Chaim Vital to keep his teachings hidden even from his former students. Rabbi Chaim Vital guarded his notes of the Ari's Kabblah vigorously and did not let anyone see them. | + | Before passing away Rabbi Yitzchok Luria had warned his student Rabbi Chaim Vital to keep his teachings hidden even from his former students. Rabbi Chaim Vital guarded his notes of the Ari's Kabblah vigorously and did not let anyone see them. In around 1587, Rabbi Chaim Vital fell very ill while he was in Tzfat. Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun asked his brother Moshe Vital to let him borrow some of the manuscripts and the latter lent him 600 pages from the Kitvay Ari. |
− | + | Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun hired 100 scribes and had them copy the manuscripts over a period of three days, returning the originals before Rabbi Chaim Vital realized the were missing. | |
==Kever Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun== | ==Kever Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun== | ||
− | Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun is buried in the ancient cemetery of Tzfat in the graves on the | + | Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun is buried in the ancient cemetery of Tzfat in the graves above and on the left of Kever Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, right near one of the two proposed locations of Kever Hayinukah. |
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+ | <gallery widths=180px heights=120px perrow=4 caption="Kever Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Nun Photo Gallery"> | ||
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[[Category:Tzadikim]] | [[Category:Tzadikim]] |