Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El

The Jerusalem kabbalists of the Beit El Yeshivah are the most influential school of kabbalah in modernity. The school is associated with the writings and personality of a charismatic eighteenth-century Yemenite Rabbi, Shalom Shar''abi, considered by his acolytes to be divinely inspired by the prophet Elijah. Shar''abi initiated what is still the most active school of mysticism in contemporary Midd...