Kabbalah
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- 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
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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 ().