Year 5332: A large and bright star with a great tail appeared and remained for 14 months. That same year there was a great earthquake and tremor in the city of Constantinople, and towers, buildings, and structures collapsed, and the entire city shook and trembled, and more than three thousand souls died in the earthquake. Also in the great city of Augsburg and in the city of Munich there was a storm and earthquake and great commotion, and many people died, and the earthquake did not cease from its fury for three days (Tzemach David, part 2).

Rabbi Moshe Isserles, the pious one who enlightened the eyes of the exile with his works: Sefer Torat HaOlah and Torat Chatat, and Shulchan Aruch, [and Darkei Moshe, Mechir Yayin a commentary on Megillat Esther, Shitah, and responsa and novellae on Shechitot, and he indicated the sources of the Beit Yosef in the Talmud.] He raised many students and spread Torah in Israel in the holy community of Krakow for about twenty years. He passed away in the year 5332 (Tzemach David).

Rabbi Eliezer Azkari, author of Sefer Charedim. He wrote at the end of the introduction: The great rabbi Rabbi Yosef Sargossi, the teacher of Rabbi David ben Zimra, was always making peace between a man and his fellow and between a man and his wife, even among the gentiles, and he merited to see Eliyahu. And in the place where he saw him, near Zion, Rabbi Yehuda bar Ela'i who carved a grave for him rested.

He also wrote there, section 19: Two great sages, kabbalists in our generation, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero [who was the head of the court in the holy community of Safed and passed away in the year 5330. The Arizal accompanied his coffin and testified that he saw accompanying it twelve pillars of the generation and experts, as it is not seen except for one in a generation or for twelve (Vayakhel Moshe 17, see there).

He composed Or Yakar on the Zohar, brought in Kol Bochim. Or Neerav, an abridgment of Pardes, 517. Sefer Gerushin 508. Zivchei Shlamim, commentary on prayer and kedushah and tekiot and the order of lashes and the service of Yom Kippur, Yevakesh HaShem, brought in Likutei Shoshanim, commentary on the Sephardic machzor, manuscript.

Avodat Yom Kippur, customs on the prayers of Yom Kippur and the sacrificial service and twelve rectifications. Pardes Rimonim. Tomer Devorah on good character traits. Tefillah LeMoshe, commentary on Sephardic prayers.

Tikkun Keriat Shema. (Rabbi Eliyahu ben Rabbi Moshe di Vidas, author of Reishit Chochmah, was his student and his grave is in the middle of the cemetery in Hebron in the Land of Israel).] And Rabbi Yitzchak Ashkenazi [is buried in Safed (in the Land of Israel), and in Shaar HaYichud 125 he wrote: And so I heard from my master the pious Rabbi Yosef Sagis, etc., and so it is written in Sefer Nof Etz Chaim, Parashat Bereishit, Rabbi Moshe Mintz said he heard from his master.] And all these mentioned were close to this generation.

Rabbi Moshe Mintz [authored responsa 105 sections].

The Gaon Betzalel Ashkenazi, teacher of the great kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, [as written in the new Talmud editions in the digest, where he composed novellae on Seder Kodashim].

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, student of the Gaon Betzalel Ashkenazi mentioned above, the great kabbalist whose light was exceedingly bright - his deeds could not be contained in all papers. [As explained in Sefer Emek HaMelech, and in Sefer HaKavanot in Keriat Shema al HaMitah, that Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of blessed memory was the portion of Rabbi Akiva, and in Sefer Vayakhel Moshe 248 page 2. The soul of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of blessed memory was the soul of Betzalel ben Uri ben Chur.

In Sefer Niflaot Chochmah he wrote principles of the Kabbalah of the Arizal.] He ascended to heaven at age 38 in the year 5332.

Rabbi Chaim Vital, the foremost of the Arizal's students of blessed memory. [He composed Pri Etz Chaim, Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of blessed memory, and the Siddur of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria and Tikkun Keriat Shema. Kavanot, general principles of learning. Klal Katan, principles of wisdom. Limudei Atzilut from Magein Avraham.

Adam Yashar, Adam Kadmon, novellae on the new Zohar. Gilgulim. Derech Emet, Derech Etz Chaim, Sefer HaDrushim].

The Gaon Falk composed Sefer Me'irat Einayim on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat. Derishah and Perishah on Yoreh De'ah and Even HaEzer, and recently printed on Choshen Mishpat. He lived close to this time (Tzemach David). Also his wife was exceedingly wise and died in Jerusalem at age 77 and was buried within five cubits of the grave of Zechariah the Prophet. [As written in Perishah, Siman 22, at the end of the book].