Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical and theosophical tradition that aspires to a deep, personal connection to the divine. Developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it is recognized for a wealth of insights that are considered significant for the cultivation of Jewish spirituality.
Kabbalah (also Kabbala, Cabala, Qabalah, Cabbala) is a Hebrew word meaning “tradition.” The term was used initially to portray the entire Jewish tradition but was claimed for exclusive use by the Kabbalists to refer to their particular mystical doctrine.
In the last few decades, the Kabbalah tradition has been revamped and popularized with various new-age paraphernalia to reinforce the ancient texts. Kabbalah has attracted millions of devotees, including celebrities.
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The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Topics: Death, Dying
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Cosmic night, the sinking of manifestation into a state of rest, comes about when the forth-rushing expansive force of creation is interlocked and stabilized into equilibrium.
—Kabbalah Teaching
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
—Kabbalah Teaching
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Topics: Change
Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Topics: Change
Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Topics: Advice, Disease
Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.
—Kabbalah Teaching
Topics: Growth
The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.
—Kabbalah Teaching