Is Kabbalah actually a religion?

Question

I am not Christian and I think the world was created scientifically. Could I study Kabbalah?

Answer 1

Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‎, Tiberian: qabːɔˈlɔh, Qabbālāh, Israeli: Kabala) 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 (Tanakh) and classical Jewish texts (halakha and aggadah) and practices (mitzvot), 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" (Isaac the Blind)—nevertheless comes to be known and experienced by the created world.

Because of the interpretive liberties taken by kabbalistic thinkers, and the possible heresies to which they may easily lead, study of Kabbalah was traditionally restricted to a select few Rabbis and Torah scholars. As Joseph Albo puts it in his Sefer Ha-Ikkarim (II:28, fifteenth century, trans:Husik), "This is why the science treating these things is called Kabbalah (lit. tradition), because tradition must be followed in the study and the practice of it, else one is liable to commit an error and to worship as God some one other than the Lord."

Answer 2

You may study whatever you wish. Kabbalah is a rather estoteric interpretation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh with a rather mystical slant. Because of it's rather unusual view, you need to be lead by a very learned rabbi who can discuss this properly. To misread will result in misinterpretation and false beliefs .

Answer 3

You're better off becoming a Scientologist or a member of the Christian Science movement.

Answer 4

what you see is simply a fad.

they show you cool number tricks and nice sayings that make you feel good.

but you pay because old and mystic.

trust me your time and money is better spent else where.

Answer 5

No, it is a disease, just like Judaism.