Kabbalah

Kabbalah (Hebrew: קבלה) "reception, adoption, transmission, transmission") is the mystical tradition in Judaism. The original roots of Kabbalah are found in the Torah, the Holy Scripture of Judaism. In centuries of oral transmission, various other influences were also incorporated, including Gnostic, Neoplatonic and Christian elements. Since Pico della Mirandola, it has also been continued in non-Jewish circles, especially in the form of the Christian Kabbalah.

History of the word

Nachmanides (מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōšeh ben-Nāḥmān, 1194–1270), modern artistic depiction in Acre

The term Kabbalah (Hebrew: קבלה) goes back to the Hebrew root q-b-l (קבל) and means something "to receive" and derived from it "transmission, taking over and passing on". The bearers of this transmission are called Baʕaleh Haqabalā בעלה הקבלה or Məqūballīm מקובלים, the latter form resonating the meaning of "received from God" because of the passive voice. Originally, the word Kabbalah could refer to any tradition in general, but especially to the revelation of the Torah to Moses at Sinai. Thus the "Sayings of the Fathers" from the Mishnah begin, "Moses received (q-b-l) the Torah at Sinai and delivered it ..." Older kabbalists bore non-specific and flowery names such as Knower of the Beauty of Grace (יודעי חן yōdəʕēy ḥēn) or simply Knower (יודעים yōdəʕīm), a designation that goes back to Nachmanides, reasoners (משכלים miśkālīm) and wise of heart (חכמי הלב ḥāchmēy halēv) and the object itself was (חכמה ניסתרה ḥåchmā nīstarā) the hidden wisdom. In the main body of the Zohar, the word "Kabbalah" is not used, but appears in later parts such as Ra'aya Meheimna and the Sefer ha-Tiqunim. Since the beginning of the 14th century, the term Kabbalah has almost completely replaced all synonyms.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Bewußtsein – Leben – Form , GA 89 (2001) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geistige Hierarchien und ihre Widerspiegelung in der physischen Welt, GA 110 (1991) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte, GA 122 (1984), ISBN 3-7274-1220-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Matthäus-Evangelium, GA 123 (1988), ISBN 3-7274-1230-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Welche Bedeutung hat die okkulte Entwicklung des Menschen für seine Hüllen und sein Selbst?, GA 145 (1986) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Vorträge und Kurse über christlich-religiöses Wirken, V, GA 346 (2001) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Geschichte der Menschheit und die Weltanschauungen der Kulturvölker, GA 353 (1988) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Okkulte Zeichen und Symbole der astralen und der geistigen Welt, Vortrag in Leipzig, 12. Januar 1908 (not in GA veröffentlicht) pdf
• Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe, Heft 32, 1970 Beiträge (Contributions) 32, S. 30f

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