Kabbalist
- noun
- /ˈkæbəlɪst/
- There once was a kabbalist in Gerona who believed that thoughts, profound thoughts, could be inherited!
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A Kabbalist believes in the mystical significance of letters and numbers in the teachings of Kabbalah.
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The kabbalists' Tree of Life diagram represents God schematically in ten qualities or emanations; it represents him completely, the ninth emanation.
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Some Christian Kabbalists make these comparisons explicit.
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Like a Kabbalist, he studies the mystical numbers of math and hopes for a spell that can cure pain, danger, and homelessness.
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"Why then, did the Kabbalists obligate each person to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?
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Scholem, like the Kabbalists he studied, found the secret revealed in the sacred texts and their hermeneutical deciphering.
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14 Van Helmont was a Christian follower of the Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria, according to whom each soul has ("revolves" through) twelve lives.
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Applying this method, the Kabbalist David teen Abraham Ha-Laban calls En-Sof—that is, the Infinite, or God—a Nothing.
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In ancient times, the Pythagoreans, Kabbalists, and Neo-Platonists drew comparisons between the intuitions of mathematicians and those of mystics and visionaries.
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Countless tracts from the rabbinic and kabbalist traditions affirm that Shekhinah shares the joys and the afflictions of both the community and the individual person of Israel to the extent that the Divine feels the pain of the human.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
A person who studies the Jewish mystical teachings of Kabbalah
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Etymology
Kabbalist comes from the Hebrew word Kabbalah, which means 'reception' or 'that which is received' and comes from a root meaning 'to receive', like the English word 'receive'. So a Kabbalist is someone who studies those received, secret teachings of Jewish mysticism.