Kabbalah

The Tree of life diagram

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 10 powers or elements called Sefirot, arranged in a specific way called the "Tree of Life".

Kabbalah Media

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  Latin translation of Gikatilla's Shaarei Ora

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  Scheme of descending Sephirot in three columns, as a tree with roots above and branches below

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  In the 16–17th centuries Kabbalah was popularised through a new genre of ethical literature, related to Kabbalistic meditation

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  Amulet from the 15th century. Theosophical kabbalists, especially Luria, censored contemporary Practical Kabbalah, but allowed amulets by Sages

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  Joseph Karo's role as both legalist and mystic underscores Kabbalah's spiritualisation of normative Jewish observance

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  Building on Kabbalah's conception of the soul, Abraham Abulafia's meditations included the "inner illumination of" the human form

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  16th-century graves of Safed, Galilee. The messianic focus of its mystical renaissance culminated in Lurianic thought.

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  A swastika composed of Hebrew letters as a mystical symbol from the Jewish Kabbalistic work Parashat Eliezer, from the 18th century or earlier

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  Title page of first printed edition of the Zohar, main sourcebook of Kabbalah, from Mantua, Italy in 1558

Other websites

• Cabala - 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia's scholarship view
• Kabbalah Red Bracelets Archived 2016-12-23 at the Wayback Machine - 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