Lurianic
Adjective
Meaning
Lurianic (comparative more Lurianic, superlative most Lurianic)
Of or relating to Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish rabbi and mystic, considered to be the father of contemporary Kabballah.
Examples
However, a number of renowned Kabbalists claimed the exact opposite, stressing universality of all human souls and providing universal interpretations of the Kabbalistic tradition, including its Lurianic version.
In Lurianic Kabbalah, reincarnation is not retributive or fatalistic, but an expression of Divine compassion, the microcosm of the doctrine of cosmic rectification of creation.
Derived from Lurianic discourse but greatly expanded in the Hasidic one, this panentheistic concept implies that literally all of creation is suffused with divinity.
Hasidic thought draws heavily on Lurianic Kabbalah and to an extent is a popularization of it.
Many dynasties have their own specific adaptation of Nusach Sefard; some, such as the versions of the Belzer, Bobover and Dushinsky Hasidim, are closer to Nusach Ashkenaz, while others, such as the Munkacz version, are closer to the old Lurianic.
The messianic focus of its mystical renaissance culminated in Lurianic thought Tzimtzum (Constriction/Concentration) is the primordial cosmic act whereby God "contracted" His infinite light, leaving a "void" into which the light of existence was poured.