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Kabbalah

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Also known as Cabala

thumb|upright=1.2|Latin translation of Joseph Gikatilla|Gikatilla's Shaarei Ora

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42 sections
Contents
  • History of Jewish mysticism
  • Traditions
  • Jewish and non-Jewish Kabbalah
  • Concepts
  • Concealed and revealed God
  • Sephirot
  • Ten sephirot as process of creation
  • Ten Sephirot as process of ethics
  • Partzufim
  • Descending spiritual worlds
  • Origin of evil
  • Role of Man
  • Levels of the soul
  • Reincarnation
  • Tzimtzum, Shevirah and Tikkun
  • Linguistic mysticism and the mystical Torah
  • Cognition, mysticism, or values
  • Kabbalists as mystics
  • Paradoxical coincidence of opposites
  • Metaphysics or axiology
  • Primary texts
  • Scholarship
  • Claims for authority
  • Criticism
  • Distinction between Jews and non-Jews
  • Medieval views
  • Orthodox Judaism
  • Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism
  • Antinomian Kabbalah
  • Contemporary study
  • Universalist Jewish organisations
  • Hasidic
  • Neo-Hasidic
  • Rav Kook
  • Cathar and Mandaean parallels
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Citations
  • Works cited
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.2|Latin translation of Joseph Gikatilla|Gikatilla's Shaarei Ora

Kabbalah or Qabalah ( ; , ; ) is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ().

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