Kabbalah

Meaning “heritage,” a mystical form, or “secret science,” of Judaism that developed in the late Middle Ages. Kabbalah was an esoteric method of interpreting the <!g>Hebrew Scriptures by way of the numerical coding of Hebrew letters. Such a code system was meant to bring out the hidden meaning of each biblical word. The culminating, classical work of Kabbalah was the Zohar (“illumination”), a work containing the record of revelations concerning divine mysteries, as they were traditionally received from the second-century Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai and his mystic circle.

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