Kabbalah explained 17 Articles

by Michael Deqel

As Kabbalah seeks to help us to understand, by providing a method for understanding, Creation Itself, it would be nothing but Hubris for someone such as myself to claim that I can explain it to anyone. I hope, therefore, t...read more

by David Braybrooke

Kabbalah, (alternative spellings: Qabbalah, Cabala, Kabala or kabbala) is the traditional name for the teachings of Jewish mysticism. Translated from Hebrew, 'Kabbalah' is defined as 'what is handed down or received', o...read more

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by Diem Seven

Kabbalah can be difficult to explain due to its complexities and the tradition from which it originated. The history of Kabbalah is steeped in Jewish lore and has evolved in many different directions through Rabbinical wri...read more

by Ken Mar

Kabbalah, Madonna, and the Catholic Church: What's the Big Deal? PART ONE Kabbalah, cabala, zohar, or whatever you want to call it, it all implies the same thing. "What am I talking about?" you ask. I too, ask the same...read more

by Marlene Bricker

Kabbalah has been an absolutely amazing experience for me. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue. The community I grew up in was predominantly Jewish. I searched and searched for what I believed was spirituality....read more

by Larry Smart

Kabbalah has received a lot of publicity due to several Hollywood stars who have openly embraced and promoted its teachings. Some will say that this publicity is good and others will argue that it is detrimental. What ex...read more

by Rafael Ferri

Kabbalah is easy to explain. Perhaps the confusion lies in the thousands of metaphors that are used to describe it. However, the term itself is easy to explain, it simply means 'to receive'. "What?" You ask? The answ...read more

by David Sparenberg

KABBALAH: LESSONS IN INTEGRAL MYTHOLOGY Part One You should want all that is yours, seeking and obtaining it, overcoming every obstacle. You should not want more than is yours, because that is covetousness and inju...read more

by Andrew Crownover

Kabbalah is a Hebrew word that is made up of the letters Kuf Bet Lamed Hey and has a numeric value of 100+2+30+5=137. Kabbalah literally means "to receive". Each human being receives consciousness for the purpose of shar...read more

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by K.D. Saffron

When people meet one another for the very first time, attraction is not immediate. There always seems to be that inevitable awkward period of nervousness that occurs as the hormones begin to flow. Safely, each individual r...read more

by Frater L.A.

Kabbalah comes to us as the esoteric, or inner, teachings of the Jewish religion. Some mystics have speculated that every major religion has its own inner mystical tradition, citing; Rosicrucianism as the mystical movemen...read more

by Oriya Pollak

I grew up as an orthodox Jew. I left it when I was 15. I hated it. I really did. I still dislike when people are not being told about their real choices in life. I now study at the Kabbalah Center. I had to fight every...read more

by Simi Brown

If you are looking for an explanation of commercialized kabbalah, then I'm sorry I can't give it to you. You should skip over my article and ask Madonna instead. The current kabbalah craze that has made its way into pop cu...read more

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by Nicholas Aarts

Do you kill, steal, or lie? That's cool. Do you hate and hurt, leaving a path of destruction in your wake? That's OK too. Kabbalah, quite simply, is not a religion. It is the science of life. And it is not concerned with w...read more

by tsefiya

[:the reason why] One Elohim 3x a Day One of the reasons why we say "the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac, and the G-d of Jacob" is because, not only were the Patriarchs (and Matriarchs) archetypes for certain Kabba...read more

by James Theakston

The body of mystical beliefs known as the "Kabbalah", whilst derived in part from a longer standing tradition, date primarily to a series of writings from the early Middle Ages. Foremost amongst these is the Sefe...read more

by Joey Wise

This is not really Kabbalah but it is an interesting concept. In the end of the first chapter of Samuel II, King David is lamenting over the deaths of Saul and Jonathan (Saul's son). In the last line of the lamentation D...read more