In this episode is The Ari passing the mantle to Khiyyam Vital?

The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Luria, Glorious, 2 of 3

So the Ari pushes the envelop; walking the hills with his coterie, he stops;

“Listen. Do you hear that? Shush, shush. Is that wind or words?… Is it really? Mercy, Lor!… This very place is a forgotten tomb of the Talmud tzaddik Benjamin, him praying here these thousand years til someone would hear his soul’s plea to mark this place where he began the casting off of materia.

“‘Holy Tzaddik, I have heard. May your spirit reveal to me wisdom locked in treasuries beyond the reaches of human thought.’”

And there and then he builds a cairn and has a mason carve a slab to mark the mound, where even now it sits, for supplicants to pour out prayers. And not only this place and not only this voice alone does he find, but many a one among these hills where throngs of the........

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