Editing The Arizal (section)

== The Arizal's Kabbalah ==
The Arizal established a method in studying Kabbalah, known as Kabbalat HaAri. This system contains many innovations compared to previous Mekubalim, including the Ramak.

Despite the importance of the Ramak's Kabbalah and its great influence on Kabbalah until today, the primary system is the Arizal's Kabbalah. Rabbi Chaim Vital testified that after the passing of his teachers, the Ramak and the Arizal, the Ramak appeared to him and revealed that although both Kabbalistic systems are true, nevertheless "my way is according to pshat for beginners in Kabbalah wisdom, while your teacher's [the Arizal's] way is inner and essential, and even I now above only learn according to your teacher's way."

In Chassidic teachings, it was explained that the difference between the systems is "that the Ramak's Kabbalah is in Sefiros of Tohu (in matters of Tohu within Tikkun itself), while the Arizal's Kabbalah is in Tikkun"; the Ramak's Kabbalah is also true, but the Arizal's Kabbalah is ultimate truth, and wherever Mekubalim disagree, the ruling follows his approach.