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Philosophical and Religious Mysteries of the Kaballah:
Kaballah is a faith that is part of Jewish Oral Law that had
developed with the mystical text, the Sefer Yetzirah. There are
however different groups of Jews having different views on the
understanding of Kaballah.
Kaballah is a religious and philosophical system that has an
insight to divine nature. It is a form of knowledge that revolves
around god and the universe. It is said to have come down as a
revelation to sages of the past and is preserved only by lucky
few.
Kaballah is a part of the Jewish Oral Law and the mystical
understanding of the Torah. In Kabbalah, you find an understanding
of the spiritual spheres of creation and learn about the rules and
ways of god in administering the existence of the universe.
In the beginning, Jewish mysticism was considered the only form of
empirical lore. However it was only under the Neoplatonic and
Neopythagorean era, and under its philosophy that Kaballah started
developing a speculative character. After this, it was in the
medieval era that the Kaballah developed with the mystical text,
the Sefer Yetzirah.
The Jews consider this book to be attributed to Abraham; and thus
became the object of systematic study of the elect. It was then
called ‘baale ha-Kabbalah’. It was after the thirteenth century
that Kaballah branched into extensive literature while opposing
the Talmud. The interesting aspect of the Kaballah is that every
letter, word, number and accent of its scripture has a hidden
sense. The Kaballah also teaches the method of interpretation of
all these various occult meanings.
Some of the Jew historians believe that it is only the mystical
religious systems that appeared after the 12th century should be
referred to be part of the Kaballah. According to them, the era
and esoteric Jewish mystical systems that existed before the 12th
century should be referred using other terms.
However there are other Jewish historians that consider this
distinction to be arbitrary. This is because according to them,
the period after the 12th century is the next part of a continuous
line of development that arises from the mystical roots and
elements as the other periods of the Jews.
This is why these scholars feel it is okay to use the term
Kaballah to refer to all forms of Jewish mysticism, that had
stemmed from as early the first century of the Common Era. Though
these are two views to the usage and reference of the term
Kaballah in Jewish religion, there is another group of Jews that
hold a completely different view.
This group of Jews is the orthodox Jews who tend to disagree with
these two schools of thought. This is because they are against the
concept of the Kabbalah undergoing any form of important
historical development and change in the Jewish history. It was
only in the later part of the 19th century that the Kabbalah is
studied as a rational system of understanding the world, and not a
mystical one.
This is attributed to the emergence of the subject ‘Jewish
Studies’ in the late 19th century. And the pioneer to this
approach for Kaballah was Lazar Gulkowitsch. Though the pioneer
for this approach for Kaballah was Lazar Gulkowitsch, there are
many groups that have made claims to being the author of the
Kabbalah. One example is the group Nasorean Essenes. According to
them, the original Kaballah is the Qabalta.
The Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Creation, is one of the first
books based on Kabbalah. The text is quoted in the 6th century in
Jewish history, while its first commentaries were written in the
10th century. However the historical origins of the Kaballah are
unclear as it still exists in numerous recessions that go up to
2,500 words long. And the irony of the Kaballah is that like most
Jewish mystical texts available today, the Kaballah is written so
that it proves to be meaningless to people who don’t have an
extensive background of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and Midrash.
In other words, to realize the beauty, and to understand the
Kaballah, it proves to be beneficial to have a background in
Tanakh and Midrash.
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