In the beginning, there was Madonna. At least that’s how most see the modern history of Kabbalah–the New Agey revival of traditional Jewish mysticism recently linked in the tabloids to a love triangle ...

A long history of holy texts, wisdom and spiritual teachers By Marcus Weston The History of Kabbalah One of the most important aspects of Kabbalah charts the lineage of its teachings from master to ...

The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 111, No. 3 (SUMMER 2021), pp. 414-443 (30 pages) No document is more central to the scholarly historiography of kabbalah's "origins" than a unique letter written by R ...

According to Margarethe Weissenstein, the Vienna-born Jewish author of The Power of the Charlatan, Casanova — who was born 300 years ago in 1725 — was an itinerant charlatan who manipulated credulous ...

Madonna is doing it. Britney is doing it. And a host of other celebrities are doing it. They're studying Kabbalah. Delving into the topic of Jewish mysticism brought warnings from scholars: Kabbalah ...

Pop star Madonna is a follower of Kabbalah, an ancient sub-sect of Judaism. Reuters You probably would not have heard of Kabbalah had Madonna not got mixed up in it during the 1990s. The pop star even ...

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Kabbalah literally means “tradition” and it’s taken to refer to the Jewish mystical tradition. When you think of tradition you think of something that’s unified, but Kabbalistic tradition is very ...