Rav Michael Laitman, PhD overviews a 4,000 year lineage of key Kabbalists and their works in a 5-and-a-half minute video.
Great Kabbalists throughout History overviews the Kabbalistic lineage and literature from the time of Abraham to our era. The first Kabbalistic book, Sefer Yetzira (The Book of Creation), written by Abraham, described his spiritual revelations. This was the primary source of the wisdom of Kabbalah until the time of the second great disclosure by Moses in the form of the Torah, a book of spiritual revelations written in a language distinct from its predecessor – that of "branches," or material consequences. Following the Torah came The Zohar (The Book of Radiance), written in the language of Midrash (Legends).
Contemporary Kabbalah began with the revelations of the Ari (Isaac Luria) in his book Etz Chaim (Tree of Life) during the middle ages. This continued until the Baal HaSulam (Yehuda Ashlag) in the 20th century who wrote Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), a modern textbook commentary on previous works. Watch the Video on Kabbalah TV (05:41)
