whats the difference between Kabbalah and Wicca?

Question

Thanks all i dont need priest advise. just remember the old religion was first..& dont forget about the magic that Jesus and its followers practiced.

Answer 1

Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. Wicca is a new age offshoot of Paganism.

Answer 2

Kabbalah or Qabala is a Hebrew word meaning "tradition." It is derived from the root word qibel, meaning "to receive." This refers to the ancient custom of handing down esoteric knowledge by oral transmission. What the word Qabalah encompasses is an entire body of ancient Hebrew mystical principles that are the cornerstone and focus of the Western Esoteric Tradition. Wicca is a Neopagan religion and a religious movement found in many different countries, though most commonly in English-speaking cultures. It was first publicised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witch cult, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion.

Answer 3

The Kabbalah is a system of Jewish mysticism, upon which a number of magical grimiores in the 15th-18th centuries were based. Eventually the Golden Dawn (a pre-Wiccan magical order with origins in the late 19th century) came about, which based much of it's work upon the Kabbalah and these early magical grimiores.

Wicca is a duo-theistic religion based in part upon practices used by the Golden Dawn, and thus, draws in part upon the Kabbalah.

Answer 4

The Kabbalah is a system used in Jewish mysticism to help understand God's creation of the universe and the laws of nature. Wicca is a religion, a revival of ancient pagan beliefs, which worships the Divine in the form of a God and Goddess (sometimes by a variety of names, ie a pantheon of gods/goddesses), and follows the Wiccan Rede. There are some similarities between the two, due to the shared focus/interest in nature, but they are seperate belief systems.

Check out Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, for generalized information on both.

Blessed Be

Answer 5

Kabbalah: According to adherents of Kabbalah, the origin of Kabbalah begins with the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). According to Midrash, God created the universe with "Ten utterances" or "Ten qualities." When read by later generations of Kabbalists, the Torah's description of the creation in the Book of Genesis reveals mysteries about the godhead itself, the true nature of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life, as well as the interaction of these supernal entities with the Serpent which leads to disaster when they eat the forbidden fruit, as recorded in Genesis 2.

Wicca: Wicca is a religion, and although its adherents often identify as witches, Wicca and witchcraft are not necessarily the same thing.

Wiccans may worship a Goddess and/or a God; they observe the festivals of the eight Sabbats of the year and the full-moon Esbats; and they have a code of ethics that most live by. Wicca is thus generally considered to be distinct from witchcraft, which does not of itself imply any specific religious, ethical or ritual elements, and is practiced in various forms by people of many religions, as well as by atheists.

Wicca does, however, incorporate a specific form of witchcraft, with particular ritual forms, involving the casting of spells, herbalism, divination and other forms of magic. Wiccan ethics require that magical activities are limited to good purposes only.

Answer 6

Kabbalah is an old form of Jewish thought. It is based on parts of the Old Testament and parts of the Talmud. Wicca is the new cleaned up name for witchcraft, that comes from pagan roots.

Answer 7

kabbalah is a hebrew direived religion and wicca is a witch church.
both have their positive sides, and both are flocked to as trendy religion. the people i feel bad for are those who practice and have practiced these religions honestly and not just as a fad.

Answer 8

They are both a form of mysticism, both are wrong.

Here is what God's word says...

Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Here is what they also have to look forward too...

Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

In His Service,

Ray
http://www.prophezine.com

Answer 9

Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism based off of the Jewish religion. It claims to know something more about God than Judaism.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/k03.html

Wicca is to do with earth forces etc.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/w02.html

Answer 10

Kabbalah is jewish. Wicca is often known to be about witch craft.