Etz Chaim
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Etz Hayim, also transliterated as Eitz Chaim (Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang"., meaning "Tree of Life"), is a common term used in Judaism. The expression can be found in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., referring to the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. It is also found in the Book of Proverbs, where it is figuratively applied to "wisdom" Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., "the fruit of a righteous man" Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., "a desire fulfilled" Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"., and "healing tongue" Script error: No such module "Bibleverse"..
Usage in Hebrew
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- Etz Chaim is a common name for yeshivas and synagogues as well as for works of rabbinic literature.
- The term Etz Chaim (plural: Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang".) is also used to describe each of the wooden poles to which the parchment of a Sefer Torah is attached. A hymn including the aforementioned verse Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". (Script error: No such module "lang".) is sung in all Ashkenazi rites as the Torah is returned to the ark.[1]
- In Kabbalah, the Etz Ḥayim symbol (Script error: No such module "lang"., The Tree of Life") is a mystical symbol used to understand the nature of God and the manner in which he created the world. The term Etz Ḥayim is also the title of one of the most important works in Jewish mysticism, written by Ḥayim Vital in the course of twenty years following the death of his master, Isaac Luria, in 1572, presenting and explicating Luria's systematic reconceptualization and expansion of the insights of the Zohar and other earlier mystical sources. Vital's Etz Chaim is the foundational work for the later Lurianic Kabbalah, which soon became the mainstream form of Kabbalah amongst both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jewry up to the modern period. This massive multi-volumed work circulated only in manuscript form among mystics for over 100 years, and was first published in 1782.
Educational institutions
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- Etz Chaim Yeshiva, Jerusalem
- Congregation Etz Chaim (Lombard, Illinois)[2]
- Congregation Etz Chayim (Palo Alto, California)[3]
- Congregation Etz Chayim (Toledo, Ohio)[4]
- Congregation Etz Chaim of Ramona (Ramona, California)[5]
- Eitz Chaim Schools (Toronto, Ontario)[6]
English publications
- First volume of Hayim Vital's Kabbalistic text Etz Hayim has been translated in The Tree of Life: Chayyim Vital's Introduction to the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria – The Palace of Adam Kadmon, Donald Wilder Menzi and Zwe Padeh, Jason Aronson 1999. Introduction gives overview of Lurianic system
- Etz Hayim Humash: a Hebrew-English Torah commentary with haftarot, created by the Conservative movement of Judaism, with commentary by Chaim Potok.
See also
References
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