Kabbalah – What is it?

Is it a science, a religion, a teaching? Is it secret or obvious? Is it something we can feel and evaluate? Is it outdated or is it relevant in our time?

Kabbalah is a wisdom about the universe. However, it studies much more than the part of the universe that we perceive through our five innate senses. Kabbalah explains that the universe is, in fact, much larger than what we perceive through our five senses. It teaches about that part of the universe that we currently do not perceive.

Kabbalah explains how the universe began, how it develops, and how it will end. Study the general structure of the universe and all its particular details. This wisdom consists of several sections, all of which talk about the general law of the universe and how we can achieve it.

If we divide it into sections, then Kabbalah covers:

• The creation of the entire universe and all its levels: still, vegetative, animate and human.
• The phases and final goal of the entire evolutionary process, including man’s part in that process.
• The connection between our current state and the states we were in before we appeared on Earth.
• The purpose of existing in a biological body for several decades and perceiving the surrounding world through the body and its five senses.
• Our state after we leave this world.
• Our reincarnations and the relationships between them.
• The way to evolve to a higher spiritual form while living on earth.

Where does authentic Kabbalah come from?

The wisdom of Kabbalah appeared more than five thousand years ago. Its roots go back to deep antiquity, the Sumerian-Akkadian period and the time of ancient Babylon. However, Kabbalah remained virtually hidden from humanity for millennia.

Despite the concealment, people have always been interested. Renowned scientists and philosophers around the world, including Newton, Leibniz, and Pico Della Mirandola, have researched the wisdom of Kabbalah and attempted to understand it. Johannes Reuchlin, humanist, scholar of the classics, and expert in languages ​​and ancient traditions, writes in his book, Kabbalistic Art: “My teacher, Pythagoras, the father of philosophy, took his teaching from the Kabbalists… He was the first to translate the word, Kabbalah, unknown to his contemporaries, to the Greek word philosophy…”

However, to this day, authentic Kabbalah is tainted with many misconceptions and misrepresentations, such as red threads, holy water, spells, miracles, and so on. Obviously, only a few know what authentic Kabbalah is really about.

Therefore, one must first clarify what the wisdom of Kabbalah is. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag puts it this way in his article “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”:

“…this wisdom is neither more nor less than a sequence of roots, hanging by way of cause and consequence, in fixed and determined rules, intertwining in a single and exalted goal described as ‘the revelation of His piety'” . to his creatures in this world.”

What does this mean? He is saying that there is an Upper Force or the Creator, and there are forces that descend from Him into our world. We are here, in our world, and we are governed by these forces. They are similar to forces we are aware of, such as gravity or electromagnetism. The only difference is that these forces are of a higher order and act while remaining hidden from us.

“The Creator” is the ultimate and all-inclusive force. He is the sum of all the forces in the universe and is the highest of all the ruling forces. The Higher Forces descend from the Creator, passing through phases called “spiritual worlds”, and finally giving rise to our world and to man within it. This constitutes the subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.