Wow, interesting path you travel...
Here are just a few links from various sources to get you started:
- Sephardic studies in English with HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok
www.koshertorah.com...
(I have at least 30 tapes/cds from this rabbi, he has some interesting stuff depending on what background you have come from)
- This is an interesting site to browse through
home.utah.edu...
- Of course, the site everyone has probably heard of because of Madonna
www.kabbalah.com...
- This is not a bad site for an intro lesson
www.workofthechariot.com...
- This is an online book translated into English from the works of Avraham Abulafia (One of the main teachers of early Kabbalah, though controversial
in his time)
www.questia.com...;jsessionid=CZJZBqY8T6D5ws2Nxqhk032xJ0l19BKGMtnpswkPYLSgSbD6hTlC!1623989841?a=o&d=102525970
- Best of all, here are tons of links to kabbalah websites
www.psyche.com...
Have fun
Gods Peace
dAlen
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while Im at it, here are some more links...
- for Christians to ponder about (the material I read through is very similar to material available from a certain rabbi, yet of course this has a
Christian twist to it. It is as it is.)
www.christ-centeredkabbalah.org...
- Rabbi David Coopers book God is a Verb is great for beginners
(especially people searching from a Christian background, IMO.)
www.rabbidavidcooper.com...
- Rabbi Michael Laitman (his group, Bnei Baruch, apparently share a teaching lineage that traces to Yehuda Ashlag, the same as Rav Berg's Kabbalah
Center. However, as it points out on the Bnei Baruch website, they are not affiliated with any other Kabbalah sites.)
kabbalah.info...
- Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh (interesting stuff, though the site has apparently just been updated...havent gone through the new site yet.)
www.inner.org...
- Breslov Chassidus
www.breslov.com...
Now, all these links will give you some direction as to your question...but the journey is yours.
Yes there is the Qabalah (Crowley, Golden Dawn) and Cabalah (medieval christian Kabbalah, though modern Christians would denounce any such practice),
and Kabbalah (Jewish) from whence the former 2 supposedly draw their information from. (Im sure this can be weaved even bigger, but this is the
gist)
I highly recommend Gershom Scholems book: Kabbalah - "A definitive History of the Evolution, Ideas, Leading Figures and Extraordinary Influence of
Jewish Mysticism."
Kabbalist may not be thrilled with him because he puts into question the authenticity of authorship of a large body of work called the Zohar. (Which
is the foundation for most of what you see in mainstream Kabbalah today. Along with the works of the Ari through Rabbi Haim Vital)
Again, Gods Peace
dalen
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