Question: Why was it only one student, Chaim Vital, who understood the teaching of the ARI, and not the others? Why specifically him?

Answer: It is impossible to know why it was arranged so from above with the souls. Baal HaSulam writes about himself that he did not know why he was granted such a mission.

But we must understand that this is only from our earthly perspective that it seems as though there are chosen souls and unimportant, “secondary” ones because we look through the prism of our egoism.

However, when it comes to the spiritual, there is no such thing as great or small. There everything is measured in bestowal, and the greatest is the one who bestows the most, the one who serves everyone, stands lower than all, and provides them with support and foundation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 39

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