Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal)

Playwright-prodigy of Padua visited (he testified) by a maggid from age twenty; investigated and forced to bury his mystical writings by rabbis still burnt from Sabbatai; exiled to Amsterdam, dead of plague at 39 in the Land of Israel. The Vilna Gaon reportedly said he would have walked to Italy to learn from him. His disciplined re-articulation of Luria made the system teachable as coherent purpose: everything, he insisted, unfolds toward revealed unity.