Kabbalah | Wikipedia audio article
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Kabbalah


00:02:09 1 Traditions
00:06:44 1.1 Jewish and non-Jewish Kabbalah
00:08:01 2 History of Jewish mysticism
00:08:11 2.1 Origins
00:09:16 2.1.1 Terms
00:10:48 2.1.2 Mystic elements of the Torah
00:12:24 2.2 Talmudic era
00:14:25 2.3 Pre-Kabbalistic schools
00:15:40 2.4 Medieval emergence of the Kabbalah
00:17:29 2.5 Early modern era: Lurianic Kabbalah
00:19:21 2.5.1 Ban on studying Kabbalah
00:21:35 2.5.2 Sefardi and Mizrahi
00:23:24 2.5.3 iMaharal/i
00:24:24 2.5.4 Sabbatian mysticism
00:26:52 2.5.5 Frankism
00:27:19 2.5.6 Modern-era traditional Kabbalah
00:29:43 2.5.7 Hasidic Judaism
00:32:04 2.5.8 20th-century influence
00:33:01 3 Concepts
00:33:10 3.1 Concealed and revealed God
00:35:39 3.2 Sephirot
00:37:42 3.2.1 Ten Sephirot as process of Creation
00:38:29 3.2.2 Ten Sephirot as process of ethics
00:40:23 3.3 Divine Feminine
00:40:32 3.4 Descending spiritual worlds
00:41:26 3.5 Origin of evil
00:43:05 3.6 Role of Man
00:45:00 3.7 Levels of the soul
00:47:58 3.8 Reincarnation
00:48:50 3.9 Tzimtzum, Shevirah and Tikkun
00:51:06 3.10 Linguistic mysticism of Hebrew
00:53:06 4 Primary texts
00:54:44 5 Scholarship
00:56:18 5.1 Claims for authority
00:57:25 6 Criticism
00:57:34 6.1 Dualistic cosmology
01:01:44 6.2 Distinction between Jews and non-Jews
01:07:17 6.3 Medieval views
01:10:00 6.4 Orthodox Judaism
01:12:58 6.5 Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism
01:16:11 7 Contemporary study
01:19:10 7.1 Universalist Jewish organisations
01:21:41 7.2 Neo-Hasidic
01:22:26 7.3 Hasidic
01:23:41 7.4 Rav Kook
01:24:48 8 See also



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Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה‬, literally "reception, tradition" or "correspondance":3) is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought of Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mequbbāl (מְקוּבָּל‬). The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later adaptations in Western esotericism (Christian Kabbalah and Hermetic Qabalah). Jewish Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between God, the unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף‬, "The Infinite"), and the mortal and finite universe (God's creation). It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism.Jewish Kabbalists originally developed their own transmission of sacred texts within the realm of Jewish tradition, and often use classical Jewish scriptures to explain and demonstrate its mystical teachings. These teachings are held by followers in Judaism to define the inner meaning of both the Hebrew Bible and traditional rabbinic literature and their formerly concealed transmitted dimension, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances. One of the fundamental kabbalistic texts, the Zohar, was first published in the 13th century, and the almost universal form adhered to in modern Judaism is Lurianic Kabbalah.
Traditional practitioners believe its earliest origins pre-date world religions, forming the primordial blueprint for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems. Historically, Kabbalah emerged, after earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th- to 13th-century Southern France and Spain, and was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical renaissance of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine. Isaac Luria is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah; Lurianic Kabbalah was popularised in the form of Hasidic Judaism from the 18th-century onwards. During the 20th-century, academic interest in Kabbalistic texts led primarily by the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem has inspired the development of historical research on Kabbalah in the field of Judaic studies.