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The primary texts of Kabbalah were allegedly once part of an ongoing oral tradition. The written texts are obscure and difficult for readers who are unfamiliar with Jewish spirituality which assumes extensive knowledge of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Midrash (Jewish hermeneutic tradition) and halakha (Jewish religious law).

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Primary texts of Kabbalah

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The primary texts of Kabbalah were allegedly once part of an ongoing oral tradition. The written texts are obscure and difficult for readers who are unfamiliar...

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Sefirot

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medieval Kabbalistic text of the Zohar, which is one of the core texts of Kabbalah. The sefirot are 10 emanations, or illuminations of God's infinite light...

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Kabbalah

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satellite texts and other minor works contribute to an understanding of the Kabbalah as an evolving tradition, the major texts in the main line of Jewish...

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Christian Kabbalah

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Christian Kabbalah arose during the Renaissance due to Christian scholars' interest in the mysticism of Jewish Kabbalah, which they interpreted according...

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Practical Kabbalah

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Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה מַעֲשִׂית Kabbalah Ma'asit) in historical Judaism, is a branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic...

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Hekhalot literature

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Hekhalot has examples of early alternate history texts. Merkabah mysticism Primary texts of Kabbalah Seven Heavens Smaller midrashim Mystical ascent in...

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Jewish mysticism

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mythology Angels in Judaism Jewish mystical exegesis Primary texts of Kabbalah List of Jewish Kabbalists List of Jewish mysticism scholars Mandaeism "Jewish Mysticism...

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Lurianic Kabbalah

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Lurianic Kabbalah is a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Jewish rabbi who developed it. Lurianic Kabbalah gave a seminal new...

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3 Enoch

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included in the biblical canon of any denomination of Judaism or Christianity. 1 Enoch 2 Enoch Primary texts of Kabbalah Charlesworth 1983, p. 224. Evans...

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Pardes Rimonim

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(meaning "Orchard of Pomegranates", with the word pardes having the double meaning of kabbalistic "exegesis") is a primary text of Kabbalah composed in 1548...

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Qlippoth

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In the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, and Hermetic Qabalah, the qlippoth (Hebrew: קְלִיפּוֹת, romanized: qəlippoṯ, originally Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קְלִיפִּין...

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Sefer Raziel HaMalakh

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языке) Hebrew astronomy Jewish astrology Jewish views on astrology Primary texts of Kabbalah Semiphoras and Schemhamphorash Bahir Sefer HaRazim See Abraham...

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Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

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‎; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria. He is known...

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Sefer Yetzirah

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The Anatomy of The Body of God has written interpretations of this book in Thelema. Jewish views on astrology Primary texts of Kabbalah Kuzari, Fourth...

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Mathers table

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Pat (1993). The Kabbalah of the Golden Dawn (First ed.). St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 0-87542-873-8. The Kabbalah Unveiled at sacred-texts.com...

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Hermetic Qabalah

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shares many concepts with Jewish Kabbalah. A primary concern of Hermetic Qabalah is the nature of divinity, its conception of which is quite markedly different...

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Keter

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is the topmost of the sefirot of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah. Since its meaning is "crown", it is interpreted as both the "topmost" of the Sefirot and...

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Partzufim

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reconfigured arrangements of the ten sefirot, divine attributes/emanations of Kabbalah. Each partzuf is thus a configuration of disparate entities into...

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Gilgul

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world, spiritual levels of the bodies of predecessors and so on. The concept relates to the wider processes of history in Kabbalah, involving cosmic Tikkun...

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Ein Sof

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"infinite", lit. '(There is) no end'), in Kabbalah, is understood as God prior to any self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual realm, probably derived...

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Ayin and Yesh

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 'nothingness', related to אֵין ʾên, lit. 'not') is an important concept in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy. It is contrasted with the term Yesh (Hebrew: יֵשׁ...

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Chokhmah

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of wisdom, chokhmah. In the Kabbalah, Chokhmah is the uppermost of the sephirot of the right line (kav yamin, the "Pillar of Mercy") in the Tree of Life...

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List of religious texts

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list of links to specific religious texts which may be used for further, more in-depth study. Pyramid Texts Coffin Texts Book of the Dead Book of Caverns...

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Four Worlds

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comprehensive categories of spiritual realms in Kabbalah in the descending chain of Existence. The concept of "Worlds" denotes the emanation of creative lifeforce...

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Tohu and Tikun

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 'The World of Chaos') and Olam HaTikun (עוֹלָם הַתִקוּן "The World of Rectification") are two general stages in Jewish Kabbalah in the order of descending...

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Jewish meditation

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Reconstructionist movement rabbi (Shefa Gold). In his book Meditation and Kabbalah, Rav Aryeh Kaplan suggests that meditation is a practice that is meant...

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Tzimtzum

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is a term used in the Lurianic Kabbalah to explain Isaac Luria's doctrine that God began the process of creation by "contracting" his Ohr Ein Sof...

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Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah

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Kabbalah, the central system in Jewish mysticism, uses anthropomorphic mythic symbols to metaphorically describe manifestations of God in Judaism. Based...

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