Alongside this, there was also a rise in interest in a form of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah, which was spread across the continent by Pico della Mirandola and Johannes Reuchlin.

In Poland, where the bulk of Yiddish-speaking Jewry had established itself by the 18th century, three branches of Yiddishkheit emerged: those who opposed the predominant study of Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ) and those who supported it ; and the Yiddish theater culture of secularism also in Lithuania originally but getting to the whole Yiddish speaking society.

This democratization of Judaism attracted to the teachings of the Besht not only the common people, but also the scholars whom the rabbinical scholasticism and ascetic Kabbalah failed to satisfy.

In the Jewish view this indicates more, that the teaching of the Sod in the book of the Zohar was not invented in the Tannaic period, but rather it is a tradition from ancient times which Rashbi and his Chevraya Kadisha used and upon which they built and founded their Kabbalah, and also that its roots are in the Torah that was given by Hashem to Moshe on Sinai.

See also Indirectly, Esoteric Christianity, Kabbalah, Renaissance magic, Mysticism, Merlin, and Grimoire.

( Zohar, Ruth 96 ) Certain Kabbalah texts also add that Moses and Zipporah are buried in the cave.

Although the word " Torah " refers specifically to the Five Books of Moses, in Judaism the word also refers to the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ), the Talmud and other religious works, even including the study of Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mussar and much more.

The initial letters of the words Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod, forming together the Hebrew word PaRDeS ( also meaning " orchard "), became the designation for the four-way method of studying Torah, in which the mystical sense given in the Kabbalah was the highest point.

" While the Kabbalah story arc, and the positive explanations of Moore's philosophy, very explicitly explain, talking-head style, the symbolism behind the details of every plane of existence, Promethea also contains critiques of materialism which are much more subtle.

He also has a prominent role as one of God's archangels in the Kabbalah literature.

The word " Kabbalah " was used in medieval Jewish texts to mean " tradition ", see Abraham Ibn Daud's Sefer Ha-Qabbalah also known as the " Book of our Tradition ".

One of them was also a scholar of the Kabbalah.

Thus, besides mastering rabbinic literature, he also acquired a fair knowledge of the sciences, philosophy, and Kabbalah.

At the same time, he would also seek out the great scholars of Talmud and Kabbalah, to win them over to Hasidism, to whom he taught the inner meaning of his teachings.

Monopsychism is a doctrine of Sabianism, Jewish Kabbalah, and Averroism, and is also a part of Rastafarian beliefs.

It quotes much of the introduction to Mathers ' Kabbalah Unveiled and also Crowley's own Qabalistic Dogma, an appendix to his Collected Works vol.

The Tosafot were also used by the scholars of the Catalonian school, such as Nahmanides and Solomon ben Adret, who were also noted for their interest in Kabbalah.

It is also a series of letters in which the author resolved certain seeming controversies in Kabbalah.

Since the sixteenth century, Safed has been considered one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberias ; since that time, the city has remained a center of Kabbalah, also known as Jewish mysticism.

* Glory ( religion ), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence ; see also Hod ( Kabbalah )

The belief in transmigration is also found in Kabbalah.

Da ` at Tevunoth also found its existence in the Dutch city as the missing link between rationality and Kabbalah, a dialogue between the intellect and the soul.

* Kabbalah ( also spelled Qabalah, QBLH )

The term " Kabbalah " means literally acceptance.

A third criticism is that Dor Daim take works of Kabbalah too literally: it is intended to be myth and metaphor, and to subject it to rigorous analysis as the Dor Daim do is like trying to construe a Keats sonnet as if it were an Act of Parliament.

According to the Kabbalah Centre, the Hebrew Bible is not to be taken literally, as it is wholly a code, and can only be truly understood in this context.

Beri ' ah ( Hebrew: בריאה or בריה ), or Briyah ( also known as Olam Briyah, עולם בריאה in Hebrew, literally World of Creation ), is the second of the four celestial worlds in the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah, intermediate between the World of Emanation ( Atziluth ) and the World of Formation ( Yetzirah ), the third world, that of the angels.

The new doctrine in Lurianic Kabbalah of God's Tzimtzum (" Withdrawal "), received different interpretations after Isaac Luria, from the literal to the metaphorical.

In the medieval West and Middle East, one finds reference to four worlds ( olam ) in Kabbalah, or five in Sufism ( where they are also called tanazzulat ; " descents "), and also in Lurianic Kabbalah.

Some other books for which the Ramak is known are Tomer Devorah (" Palm Tree of Deborah "), in which he utilizes the Kabbalistic concepts of the Sephirot (" Divine attributes ") to illuminate a system of morals and ethics ; Ohr Neerav, a justification of and insistence upon the importance of Kabbalah study and an introduction to the methods explicated in Pardes Rimonim ; Elimah Rabbati, a highly abstract treatise on kabbalistic concerns revolving around the Godhead and His relationship to the Sefirot ; and Sefer Gerushin, a short and intimate composition which features the highly devotional slant of Ramak, as well as his asceticism and religious piety.

Kabbalah sees the human soul as mirroring the Divine ( after Genesis 1: 27, " God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them "), and more widely, all creations as reflections of their life source in the sephirot.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 Zoharic Kabbalah, God is represented by a system of ten sephirot emanations, each symbolizing a different attribute of God, comprising both male and female.

* 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.