I'm a long-time follower of your work and am always intrigued by what you put out, although I'm relatively new to your substack. As a practicing Jew, I have to admit I'm a little frustrated by the decision to synthesize Christianized Kabbalah into your system. Kabbalah is an inherently Jewish mystical system rooted in Torah and is a closed practice within Judaism. "Cabalah" and "Qabala" take Jewish mystical ideas and divorce them from their fundamental context within Judaism. Christian Cabalah frequently was expanded through made-up sources and was primarily created as a means to convert Jews to Christianity, and occult Qabala downplays the inherent Jewishness of the ideas it takes while also relying on the works and ideas of notorious antisemites like Crowley.
Kabbalah, whatever you call it, is fundamentally Jewish. Every aspect of it is rooted in Jewish religious practice and culture and a very deep understanding of Torah. It was made by Jews for Jews as a Jewish mystical system, and all other uses of it are absolutely an appropriation of Jewish culture. It's absolutely okay to learn Kabbalah from Jews and in Jewish spaces, and other people are of course welcome into Jewish spaces to join our practices and studies, but that's very different from going out and taking our practices for yourself in a non-Jewish context. Christianity has its own mystical systems that have nothing to do with Kabbalah, as does general occultism and pretty much any religion you can think of. It's frustrating to see people take the mystical system that we made for ourselves as an intrinsic part of our religious practice and insert a totally other religion into it.
? Christianity is fundamentally Jewish too. Especially if you’re interested in spiritual realization, I’d strongly recommend putting time into responses that engage the ideas. Whatever you think of as ‘Jews’ have zero ownership over kabbalah, it was developed in medieval Spain with influence from islam and Christianity, and is rooted in Pythagoreanism Gnosticism. And even within judaism there are many variants of kabbalah that don’t add up to a unified system. Fantasy
I'm a long-time follower of your work and am always intrigued by what you put out, although I'm relatively new to your substack. As a practicing Jew, I have to admit I'm a little frustrated by the decision to synthesize Christianized Kabbalah into your system. Kabbalah is an inherently Jewish mystical system rooted in Torah and is a closed practice within Judaism. "Cabalah" and "Qabala" take Jewish mystical ideas and divorce them from their fundamental context within Judaism. Christian Cabalah frequently was expanded through made-up sources and was primarily created as a means to convert Jews to Christianity, and occult Qabala downplays the inherent Jewishness of the ideas it takes while also relying on the works and ideas of notorious antisemites like Crowley.
Kabbalah, whatever you call it, is fundamentally Jewish. Every aspect of it is rooted in Jewish religious practice and culture and a very deep understanding of Torah. It was made by Jews for Jews as a Jewish mystical system, and all other uses of it are absolutely an appropriation of Jewish culture. It's absolutely okay to learn Kabbalah from Jews and in Jewish spaces, and other people are of course welcome into Jewish spaces to join our practices and studies, but that's very different from going out and taking our practices for yourself in a non-Jewish context. Christianity has its own mystical systems that have nothing to do with Kabbalah, as does general occultism and pretty much any religion you can think of. It's frustrating to see people take the mystical system that we made for ourselves as an intrinsic part of our religious practice and insert a totally other religion into it.
? Christianity is fundamentally Jewish too. Especially if you’re interested in spiritual realization, I’d strongly recommend putting time into responses that engage the ideas. Whatever you think of as ‘Jews’ have zero ownership over kabbalah, it was developed in medieval Spain with influence from islam and Christianity, and is rooted in Pythagoreanism Gnosticism. And even within judaism there are many variants of kabbalah that don’t add up to a unified system. Fantasy