I watched a program on tv once that said that the kaballah is like a black magic jewish book. Is this true?
2007-01-20 04:03:08 · 9 answers · asked by Bonjour! 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow! Thanks for all of the info! Those links are very informative!
2007-01-20 04:43:39 · update #1
Kabbalah is jewish mysticism. It is not a black magic jewish book.
Here's a link to help you better understand it.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kabbalah.htm
2007-01-20 04:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am not Jewish, but I have studied Kabbalah deeply. It would be impossible to describe it in this little box, except to say that it is a mystical tradition. For an easy to understand read on the subject, I recommend the works of Aryeh Kaplan and Lawrence Kushner. One of Kaplan's students, David Sheinkin, wrote the best little intro book to it, called "Path of the Kabbalah". It is short and to the point and written in a style that anyone can understand.
2016-05-24 00:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Delores 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kabbalah literally means "receiving", in the sense of a "received tradition", and is sometimes transliterated as Cabala, Kabbala, Qabalah, or other permutations. Kabbalah esoterically interprets the Hebrew Bible and classical Jewish texts and practices as expressing a mystical doctrine concerning God's simultaneous immanence and transcendence, an attempted resolution to the ancient paradox of how the ultimate Being—"that which is not conceivable by thinking" — nevertheless comes to be known and experienced by the created world.
The term Kabbalah was originally used in Talmudic texts, among the Geonim (early medieval rabbis) and by Rishonim (later medieval rabbis) as a reference to the full body of the oral tradition of Jewish teaching, which was publicly available. Even the works of the Tanakh's prophets were referred to as Kabbalah, before they were canonized as part of the written tradition. In this sense Kabbalah was used in referring to all of Judaism's oral law. Over time, much of the oral law was recorded, but the esoteric teachings remained an oral tradition. Now, even though the esoteric teachings of the Torah are recorded, it is still known as Kabbalah.
Thus, this term became connected with doctrines of esoteric knowledge concerning God, the human being and the relationship between them. Ontology, cosmogony, and cosmology are the main components of this esoteric lore. The reasons for the commandments in the Torah and the ways by which God administers the existence of the universe are also a part of the Kabbalah.
2007-01-20 04:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by alexytia 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The link below will be very informative
Origin of Jewish mysticism
http://www.milechai.com/judaism/kabbalah.html
Most forms of Kabbalah teach that every letter, word, number, and accent of scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kabbalah.htm
Kabbalah is one of the most grossly misunderstood
parts of Judaism. I have received several messages from non-Jews describing Kabbalah as "the dark side of Judaism," describing it as evil or black magic
2007-01-20 04:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by LucySD 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seems that way...but the Jewish refrain from teaching it till you are 40 years old because it might be taken the wrong way or something...
2007-01-20 04:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by Just Me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is Jewish mysticism, only learned by the highest scholars. Everything you here about today is fake.
2007-01-23 02:55:45 · answer #6 · answered by ysk 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't believe everything you see on TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaballah
2007-01-20 04:06:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a book of mysticism
2007-01-20 04:05:56 · answer #8 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well if Jesus is not God he is not coming at all so why you telling me he is coming as a man?
2007-01-20 04:14:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋