R. Shalom ben Isaac Mizrahi Sharabi (1720–1777), Jerusalem kabbalist. Sharabi was born in Sana in Yemen , where the study of Kabbalah and mysticism was widespread. in his youth, he emigrated to Ereẓ Israel via Damascus . In Damascus he was involved in a controversy with the local rabbis concerning the meaning of the minimum quantity ("the size of an olive") prescribed for the eating of matzah on Passover night. When he arrived in Jerusalem , he prayed and studied at the kabbalistic yeshivah Bet El, which had been founded in 1737 by the kabbalist Gedaliah Ḥayon. There the prayers were held in accordance with the mystical meditations of R. Isaac Luria . Like the Jerusalem kabbalists, he studied only the Lurianic Kabbalah, as transmitted through the works of R. Ḥayyim Vital , Luria's outstanding pupil. Soon he became widely known as a man of outstanding piety and as a kabbalist. R. Sharabi succeeded R. Gedaliah Ḥayon as head of the yeshivah after the latter's death (1751). During his leadership, he did much for the yeshivah, initiated important regulations, and arranged the order of prayer. He became known as one of the greatest rabbis in Jerusalem and his signature appears on several documents preserved from this period. In 1754 and 1758, he and other rabbis of Jerusalem signed the note binding the association of kabbalists, Ahavat Shalom. In 1774 he signed next to the leaders of the community of Jerusalem on a letter for emissaries to Western Europe.

Sharabi's life was embellished by legends even from his youth, and in Ereẓ Israel he was famous as a saint and miracle worker. Popular tradition links his departure from Yemen with a miracle that occurred after a rich Muslim woman tried to seduce him. In Bet El he worked as a servant and hid his learning from others; only miraculously was his deep knowledge of Kabbalah discovered and he became a member of the kabbalistic circle. According to legend, the prophet Elijah appeared to him, and he was an incarnation of Luria. After his death, his name became greatly revered among the Jews of Jerusalem and among the kabbalists of Bet El. His grandson, R. Solomon Moses Ḥai Gagin, wrote a poem of praise on his expertise in Eẓ Ḥayyim and in Shemonah She'arim of R. Ḥayyim Vital. The members of Bet El used to prostrate themselves on his grave on the Mount of Olives on the commemoration of his death. His signature was R. Shalom Mizraḥi di-Ydi'a Sharabi and his titles Ha-Reshash or Ha-Shemesh (both are Hebrew acronyms of Shalom Mizraḥi Sharabi). R. Sharabi's books are on Lurianic Kabbalah. Particularly famous is his prayer book Nehar Shalom (Salonika, 1806), which includes in detail the secrets and mystical meditations on prayers and on mitzvot for the entire year according to Luria's Kabbalah. It became popular in Ereẓ Israel and North Africa after his death. His contemporary, R. Ḥ.J.D. Azulai , attested that Sharabi studied the Lurianic teachings in depth and presented the mystical meditations of Luria clearly and correctly. He annotated corruptions in the texts and elucidated lacunae and contradictions. His glosses and explanations of R. Luria's writings are an important source for their understanding.

ההדפסה הסתיימה באמצע שנת תרע"ב, כפי שנראה מתאריכי ההסכמות. חלק א: נקרא בשם תיקוני הנפש. [7], פא דף. חלק ב: נקרא בשם זיכוך הנפש. כולל סדר תיקון חצות (עם כל כוונותיו. וגם תיקון השק והאפר והדמעה. הכל מועתק מסידורי הרש"ש ... ואחר הסדר הנז' נתחיל לסדר הייחודים) לזכך הנפש. [1], נב, [2] דף. דף [7-6] בראש חלק א: מפתחות לס' תיקוני הנפש; מפתחות לס' זיכוך הנפש. [2] דף בסוף חלק ב: לוח הטעיות ... לס' תיקוני הנפש ... לוח הטעיות ... לס' זיכוך הנפש. שני הדפים נכרכו בסוף ספר כונות פרטיות.

הסכמות: ר' שלמה ב"ר חיים חייקיל עלייא שאוו [אלישוב], שאוויל, ח' אדר תרע"א; - חלק א בית דין דאשכנזים פרושים בירושלם: ר' משה נחום וואללענשטיין, ר' ארי' ליב בהרא"ד [ב"ר אלימלך דוב הרשלר] ור' צבי פסח פראנק, כה אייר תרע"ב; בית דין דאשכנזים חסידים בירושלם; - חלק א ר' ליפמאן דוד במהר"י [ב"ר יעקב שובאקס], ר' קלמן חמאדיש ור' בצלאל ישעי' בערינשטיין, כה אייר תרע"ב; - חלק א רבני ירושלים: ר' יוסף חיים זאננפעלד ור' מנחם מענכין היילפרין, כו אייר תרע"ב. - חלק א