
Kabbalah: Secret Teachings (Jewish Mysticism; Secret Teachings; Esoteric Judaism; Qabala)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Judaism of the Middle Ages
Judaism is i unlike, i think, christian mystic m and islamming mistiism. It's much more practically oriented as a form of mysticism than it is experientially. Judaism has never really got on that train. And part of the reason why is that a god is ultimately unknowable. The task is not so union with the divine as much as it is to the repair of the world.
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Kabbalism is a school of Jewish mysticism that's made a celebrity splash. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli continue a conversation with Dr. Justin Sledge about the controversial millennia-old Kabbalah teachings about God, the creation of the world, the origin of evil, and the afterlife.
