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Kabbalah or Qabalah ( / kəˈbɑːlə, ˈkæbələ / kə-BAH-lə, KAB-ə-lə; Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, romanized : Qabbālā, lit. 'reception, tradition') [ 1][ a] is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. [ 2] A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ( מְקוּבָּל, Məqūbbāl, 'receiver'). [ 2]
The term cabal is derived from Kabbalah (a word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew scripture (קַבָּלָה). In Hebrew, it means "received doctrine" or "tradition", [4] In European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated with occult doctrine or a secret.
v. t. e. Practical Kabbalah ( Hebrew: קַבָּלָה מַעֲשִׂית Kabbalah Ma'asit) in historical Judaism, is a branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic. It was considered permitted white magic by its practitioners, reserved for the elite, who could separate its spiritual source from qlippoth realms of evil ...
Antisemitic tropes or antisemitic canards are " sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications " [ 1] that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group. Since as early as the 2nd century, [ 2] libels or allegations of Jewish guilt and cruelty emerged as a recurring motif along ...
The international Jewish conspiracy or the world Jewish conspiracy has been described as "one of the most widespread and long-running conspiracy theories ". [ 1 ] Although it typically claims that a malevolent, usually global Jewish circle, referred to as International Jewry, conspires for world domination, the theory's content is extremely ...
[note 72] A 9th-century Jewish traveller, Eldad ha-Dani, is said to have informed Spanish Jews in 883 that there was a Jewish polity in the East, and that fragments of the legendary Ten Lost Tribes, part of the line of Simeon and half-line of Manasseh, dwelt in "the land of the Khazars", receiving tribute from some 25 to 28 kingdoms.
Thelema. The tree of life ( Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים, romanized : ʿēṣ ḥayyim or no: אִילָן, romanized : ʾilān, lit. 'tree') is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it. [ 1] It is usually referred to as the "kabbalistic tree of life" to distinguish it from the tree of ...
Jacob HaKohen. Isaac HaKohen Author of Treatise on the Left Emanation. Todros ben Joseph Abulafia c. 1225–1285. Moses of Burgos. Ecstatic/Prophetic -Meditative Kabbalah (13th century): Abraham Abulafia Spain, Italy, Malta. 1240-after 1291. Publication of the Zohar (1280s–90s Northern Spain): Moses de León c. 1250–1305.