Does The Kabbahlah Hold The Greater Truths Of Life?

Question

Woth Kabbahlah being so maistream nowadays, I curious to know if it really does hold the greater truths about life in the human realm? I don't know very much about other than what I have read about it in popular magazines. Can anyone elaborate more about what Kabbahlah is all about? Thank you!

Answer 1

The truths of the Kabbalah as a tradition holds no greater or lesser truths than any of the other mainstream or minorstream or rivulets of other mystic traditions.

Answer 2

Jewish magic. Its main books are Zohar and Sefera Yezira.

Zohar (the word means "light") is a mystical commentary on the Torah and was probably written by Moses de Leon in the 13th century. However, the Jews have alleged the author to have been Simon ben Yohai, a 2nd century Jewish scholar and mystic. This is probably a false attribution. It is possible for a book to reappear, after having been lost for 1100 years, if was carefully preserved (such as in an atmosphere without oxygen), but it is not probable.

Zohar is the second book of Cabalistic lore; the first book is Sefera Yezira, also appearing ca. 1200; it is also falsely attributed to the biblical Abraham, supposedly having been missing for 3,100 years.

The Cabalistic movement began among the Jews in France in about 1100, about two hundred years prior to the "discovery" of these works of magical literature. By its practice and embellishment in Medieval Europe, the Cabala became the basis of the magical systems known best to Western Civilization.

The emergence of Cabalism is significant because the long-standing accusations, by gentiles against Jews, of practicing ritual murder in order to extract the victim's blood, began at about the same time. William of Norwich was murdered, allegedly by the Jews of Norwich, England, in 1144. He was certainly murdered by somebody.

Anyway, the renewing of the Blood Accusation against the Jews happened at about the same time that Cabalism got started, after having been dormant for about a thousand years. Most of the earlier accusations were in ancient times, among the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians.

Answer 3

it's ancient Jewish mysticism derived from earlier Egyptian ideas, deals with aspects of divination, gnosticism (attaining contact with GOD through specific knowledge), alchemy, and divination (in fact european tarot is based on kabbalah, as 22 Major Arcana cards align with the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet)
And yeah, the hollywood hype has added a lot of pretentiousness to the word lately, if you wanna know more DAVID GODDARD has written some excellent books.

Answer 4

I don't know much about it except that Madonna is a HUGE fan of it. I would Wikipedia it and maybe it could tell you more about it. Sorry I don't know that much about it.