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<font size=3>At 01:13 AM 10/22/2006, Chaim G Steinmetz wrote:<br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Let me preface this by saying
that I have no expertise in Kisvei Arizal and<br>
in the various versions of the manuscripts and prints etc. I am also not
an<br>
expert in minhogim at all, but Torah hi ulilmod ani
tzorich.</font></blockquote><br>
I recall hearing that we actually have almost nothing directly from the
ARI. The writings that we have are from Rav Chaim Vital and other
talmidim of the ARI. Thus, technically, I am not sure if there really is
anything that one can correctly label as "Kisvei Arizal."
However, I am not sure of this. <br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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