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What does Kabbalah mean?
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receiving, or that which has been received, or tradition.
It is new, spontaneous and ancient all in the same time |
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What is the major text of Kabbalah?
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Zohar
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Where and when does an active circle of Kabbalans form? What's it attributed to?
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Spain in the 12th century, to Shim'on who was a Spanish-Jewish mystic and later written by Moses de Leon
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What does the Zohar mean and what is it?
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Means radiance or splendor, it is a mystical commentary on the Bible itself which uncovers the deepest layer of the Bible's meaning
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Describe more about the Zohar
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The Zohar is firmly rooted in the bible and Rabbinic discovery. It celebrates creativity and re-examines scripture. The mystic is connecting with something eternal yet ancient. It is also a Mystical novel, a medieval experiment in fiction
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What is the plot of the Zohar
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for the inner life of God
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What is the goal of Kabbalah
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to unite the masculine and feminine parts of God and balance them. The ideas is that God needs us and he's incomplete without our participation or action. We make God whole (real) in the world if we live ethically
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Who is tShekinah?
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the divine female, very radical but still very ancient, originally called Asherah (goddess) but was later desacralized because the Cannaite goddess. Now she is reemerging
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