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Zoharic and Kabbalah
Some adopted the Lurianic-Sephardic liturgy to a greater or lesser extent, while others retained the ancestral liturgy, whether or not they accepted the Zoharic / Lurianic Kabbalah theologically.
Some Baladim may sympathize to a greater or lesser extent with the Dor Dai distrust of Zoharic and Lurianic Kabbalah.
Some Modern Orthodox thinkers of a mitnagged cast of thought, however, such as Yeshayahu Leibowitz, reject Zoharic Kabbalah and praise the work of Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ.
Accordingly, since the Dor Daim assert nothing that is not found within the four corners of the Mishneh Torah, and the Mishneh Torah cannot be interpreted as actually requiring belief in anything approaching Zoharic or Lurianic Kabbalah, they cannot be heretics-unless the Mishneh Torah itself is heretical, which is not held by any mainstream Jewish group.
16th century Lurianic Kabbalah systemised the Zoharic Partzufim in its recasting of the whole Kabbalistic scheme.

Zoharic and by
* Maimonides Agonist: Disenchantment and Reenchantment in Modern Judaism Article by Menachem Kellner contrasting Maimonidean with Zoharic Judaism.

Zoharic and each
There are actually two texts in Zoharic literature called Idra: the first being the Idra Rabba, or “ greater Idra ”, and the second being the Idra Zuta, or “ lesser Idra ”, with these two texts being intimately connected to each other.

Zoharic and .
From the Zoharic writings, the 70 Tikounim ` Hadashim re-appeared in 1958 against all odds, in the Library of Oxford.
# Ohr Yakar (" A Precious Light ")-A Magnum opus of some 16 volumes in its extant manuscript form, which had occupied Ramak throughout his adult life-a classic commentary on the Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah and the Zoharic literary offshoots.
Contemporary scholars believe the Idra dates to the third generation of Zoharic literature, which produced also the Tiqqunim, the Ra ' aya Meheimna, and other Zoharic material.
The main body of the Zohar, or guf ha-zohar, dates to the second generation of Zoharic material.
This was a great help, for ( according to Zoharic legend ) " when Hadraniel proclaims the will of the Lord, his voice penetrates through 200, 000 firmaments.

Kabbalah and God
Kabbalah defines God as the force of giving in existence.
Another opinion is that the choice was free in a limited context, thus: although the Jews chose to follow precepts ordained by God, the Kabbalah and Tanya teach that even prior to creation, the " Jewish soul " was already chosen.
Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.
In Hasidic Judaism, the Kabbalah presents Satan as an agent of God whose function is to tempt one into sin, then turn around and accuse the sinner on high.
While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.
In Kabbalah, while God is an absolutely simple ( non-compound ), infinite Unity beyond grasp, as described in Jewish philosophy by Maimonides, through His Kabbalistic manifestations such as the Sephirot and the Shekhinah ( Divine Presence ), we relate to the living dynamic Divinity that emanates, enclothes, is revealed in, and incorporates, the multifarious spiritual and physical plurality of Creation within the Infinite Unity.
In the view of Kabbalah, however, no Jew would worship the supernal community souls of the Jewish people, or the Rabbinic leader of the generation, nor the totality of Creation's unity in God itself, as Judaism innately perceives the absolute Monotheism of God.
In Esoteric Christianity, theurgy usually is the practice of trying to gain the knowledge and conversation of one's Higher Self, or Inner God, to teach one spiritual truths and wisdom from God that one couldn't learn from man ( see Alchemy, Kabbalah, and Theosophy ).
The most powerful effect of this particular Name of God stems from the Jewish mystical book the Zohar, the seminal document of Kabbalah that emerged in 13th century Spain.
The main dimensions of Lurianic Kabbalah deal with the relationship between the Infinite God, who is the only true existence, and the perceived Creation, that takes place within, and emanated from, the Divine unity.
In The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah, Lippman Bodoff argues that Abraham never intended to actually sacrifice his son, and that he had faith that God had no intention that he do so.
He declared the whole universe, mind and matter, to be a manifestation of the Divine Being ; that this manifestation is not an emanation from God, as is the conception of the Kabbalah by Mitnagdim, for nothing can be separated from God: all things are rather forms in which God reveals Himself.
To use his own words, “ the ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God .” Mysticism, he said, is not the Kabbalah, which everyone may learn ; but that sense of true oneness, which is usually as strange, unintelligible, and incomprehensible to mankind as dancing is to a dove.
Through an approach based partly on Kabbalah, Chabad philosophy methodizes an understanding of God.
In The Holy Kabbalah ( Arthur Edward Waite, 255 ), Samael is described as the " severity of God ", and is listed as fifth of the archangel of the world of Briah.
The main text of Kabbalah, the Zohar, describes the first verse of the Shema (" Hear Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One ") as the " Upper level Unity ", and the second line (" Blessed be the Name of the Glory of His Kingdom forever ") as the " Lower level Unity ".
Lurianic Kabbalah describes the process of Tzimtzum ( צמצום meaning " Contraction " or " Constriction ") in the Kabbalistic theory of creation, where God " contracted " his infinite essence in order to allow for a " conceptual space " in which a finite, independent world could exist.
In the Jewish Kabbalah, Chokhmah ( wisdom and intuition ) is the force in the creative process that God used to create the heavens and the earth.
Depending on how this idea was preached and interpreted, it could give rise to pantheism, universally acknowledged as a heresy, or lead to immoral behavior, since elements of Kabbalah can be misconstrued to de-emphasize ritual by rote and glorifies sexual metaphors as a deeper means of grasping some inner hidden notions in the Torah based on the Jews ' intimate relationship with God.

Kabbalah and is
Beside such revived currents from late Antiquity, a second major source of esoteric speculation is the Kabbalah, which was lifted out of its Jewish context and adapted to a Christian framework by people such as Johannes Reuchlin.
Although ostensibly derived from Greek, it is largely used in Jewish texts, notably in those associated with the Kabbalah.
She then is depicted in the Talmud and Kabbalah as first wife to God's first creation of man, Adam.
Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.
The Kabbalah Centre, which employs teachers from multiple religions, is a New Age movement that claims to popularize the kabbalah, the Jewish esoteric tradition.
Kabbalah, also spelled Kabala or Cabala ( literally " receiving "), is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought.
Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal and mysterious Ein Sof ( no end ) and the mortal and finite universe ( his creation ).
Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of Torah – the study of Torah ( the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature ) being an inherent duty of observant Jews .< ref >
There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).
This study of numerology is based on the evidence of significant double-digit numbers in the Kabbalah, the I-ching, the Pythagorean numerology, the Tarot Arcana of the Eastern faiths, and the Runes of the Viking age.
Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.
There is some debate as to whether Lurianic Kabbalah, with its doctrine of Tzimtzum, can be regarded as panentheistic.
In 1803, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi compiled an authoritative siddur from the sixty siddurim that he checked for compliance with Hebrew grammar, Jewish law, and Kabbalah: this is what is known today as the " Nusach Ari ", and is used by Lubavitch Hasidim.
Song of Songs is one of the overtly mystical Biblical texts for the Kabbalah, which gave esoteric interpretation on all the Hebrew Bible.
* In the Atari 2600 game Swordquest: Fireworld, the map of the game world is patterned after the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination before the 18th century.
The Zohar (, lit Splendor or Radiance ) is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah.
This accords with the traditional claim by adherents that Kabbalah is the concealed part of the Oral Torah.

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