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cabala

noun

«cabala» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

In these texts it is the name for Jewish mystical teaching, of which Sefer Yetzirah is an early book.

Interpretation. Many mystics treat Sefer Yetzirah as a source of Kabbalah. It is said to be a book about how God made the world with the Hebrew letters and the ten sefirot.

Meaning

A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah. tree →

Examples

  • D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cabala/