Kabbalah
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Kabbalah (also Cabala or Qabbālâ) is a Jewish mysticism of the Torah. The kabbalah started in the 1st-century by Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai. It continued in the 13th century in Spain by Rabbi Moses de León. It tries to explain how something beyond thought and imagining can still be seen and felt. The kabbalah has a great influence on the Jewish spiritual life. It is based on the various spiritual movements.
Tree of Life
The kabbalah is based on the tree of the 10 Sephirot called the "Tree of Life". In the tree are presented the 10 powers that affect each domain in the world.
Kabbalah Media
Jewish Kabbalists portrayed in 1641; woodcut on paper. Saxon University Library, Dresden.
Kabbalistic prayer book from Italy, 1803. Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel.
Latin translation of Gikatilla's Shaarei Ora
The Ark of the Covenant in Solomon's Temple was the seat for God's presence. Ezekiel and Isaiah had prophetic visions of the angelic heavenly Chariot and Divine Throne
Grave of Rabbi Akiva in Tiberias. He features in Hekhalot mystical literature, and as one of the four who entered the Pardes
The grave of Shimon bar Yochai in Meron before 1899. A Talmudic Tanna, he is the mystical teacher in the central Kabbalistic work, the Zohar
The 13th-century eminence of Nachmanides, a classic rabbinic figure, gave Kabbalah mainstream acceptance through his Torah commentary
The leading scholars of Safed in 16th-century invigorated mainstream Judaism through new legal, liturgical, exegetical and Lurianic-mythological developments.
Synagogue Beit El Jerusalem. Oriental Judaism has its own chain of Kabbalah
The 16th-century Maharal of Prague articulated a mystical exegesis in philosophical language
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Other websites
- Cabala - 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia's scholarship view
- Kabbalah Red Bracelets - Information about Kabbalah Bracelets, history and meaining
- Don Karr's Bibliographic Surveys of contemporary academic scholarship on all traditions of Kabbalah
- "What is Kabbalah?" - Article from Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism at Chabad.org
- Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism - Kabbalah article at JewFaq.org
- Kabbalah.com - Official site of the Kabbalah Centre
- Kabbalah.info - Official site of Bnei Baruch
- Kabbalaonline.org Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine - Orthodox kabbalah reference portal
