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There are many sensational trends with the Kabbalah, as can be expected from such an esoteric and sexy field.Doesn't Judaism teach that Kabbalah is only to be learned by Jews after one has mastered the Torah? Isn't Kabbalah something that is not to be taken lightly? Isn't there a bunch of Hollywood garbage out there?
Doesn't Judaism teach that Kabbalah is only to be learned by Jews after one has mastered the Torah? Isn't Kabbalah something that is not to be taken lightly? Isn't there a bunch of Hollywood garbage out there?
yes you are right but what can you do about it? people claim there is practical kabbalah, but I can't see how that is possible. it is part of a believe part of religion you can't take the book out of that religion and claim they know it lol.
I know some people who claim they study kabbalah but yet they can't seem to understand it because it has no effect on them.
I never learned kabbalah but I know a lot of our prayers or traditions are according to kabbalistic customs, so it means they are written there, but how then can people claim they learned it and not live according to the Torah is out of my understanding.
Doesn't Judaism teach that Kabbalah is only to be learned by Jews after one has mastered the Torah? Isn't Kabbalah something that is not to be taken lightly? Isn't there a bunch of Hollywood garbage out there?
1) Yes and No, 2) Yes, 3) Yes. With respect to the first question, there are some in Judaism who do teach "that Kabbalah is only to be learned by Jews after one has mastered the Torah." Actually they teach that one needs to first learn a lot of (does anyone ever really master) Torah, and then, they teach that one needs to learn a great deal of Talmud. But that's for a particular purpose: to learn, through the canonical writings, what God wants of the Jewish people (and the reasons God wants it) according to the heart of the Jewish tradition. Others, with pretty good credentials, teach that one can learn enough about Kabbalah to improve one's life and certainly to become more knowledgeable about the Jewish tradition.
If someone told you you couldn't drive a car until you had mastered the workings of the car, you'd have a lot harder time learning to drive. From the Hasids, and then again from the leaders of Jewish Renewal, we learned that one can get a driver's licence without having a Master's degree in automotive engineering, i.e., that one can learn how to use the wisdom of Kabbalah--in a Jewish context--to make ourselves better Jews, even if we don't understand the esoteric parts.
There's certainly a lot of garbage out there, but I wouldn't automatically suggest that everything new is garbage (some would say that). You probably should find out more about specific approaches to Kabbalah before making that kind of claim.
Yes you talentvery well said, yet when people try to sell "kabbalah water" etc.
It kind of detracts from the whole thing.....
Of course one could argue you can just turn the key and drive, you dont need to read the manual. although reading the manual will give you further insight, but readign the manual wont enable you to buy some milk from the supermarket, only driving the car will.....
I never learned kabbalah but ..........
anybody know anything serious about it?