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What is Kabbalah?

In recent years, not only in glossy magazines, but in life you can see people who wear a red thread on their wrists. What does this mean? One of the vivid examples is the singer Madonna, who claims that Kabbalah is a teaching that helps her to live and create, gives happiness, peace and health. Meanwhile, the media do not give us an exhaustive answer to the question posed in the title of the article.

Kabbalah is religion or science?

The answer is unambiguous here. The fact is that adherents of Kabbalah say: this is a special science - the science of oneself, the surrounding world, the meaning of life. Those who are far from this mysterious current, skeptically declare that this is another religion, which, perhaps, is one of the hidden branches of Judaism, or Buddhism, or something else. There are still some people who generally believe that Kabbalah is something from the category of black magic and sorcery.

So what is Kabbalah, after all? In order to be objective and impartial, we will give her such a definition. Kabbalah is a scientific and religious teaching. But due to the fact that for a long time it really was a secret, today there are so many legends, fictions and falsifications around it. Incidentally, those who accept Kabbalah for the occult current are right to some extent - there really is a place for magic, fortune telling, predictions.

Until the end of the last century, it would never have occurred to anyone to ask: "What is Kabbalah?". Starting from this time interval, the secret philosophical doctrine literally "opened" a second wind. Today, Kabbalah is experiencing a real boom in popularity - now it unites people from different countries and virtually all walks of life. What is this - another sect?

The roots of Kabbalah are Jewish, and the main sources for it in due time were Jewish books of a religious nature. The very word "Kabbalah" is translated from Hebrew as "receiving". Adherents of the doctrine claim that it helps them find their way in life, which will lead to spiritual comfort.

How often do people who have a special, significant event in their life (no matter whether good or bad) are asked questions: "And what is the meaning of life?", "What do I live for?" These and similar questions and Famous philosophers of antiquity tried to give an answer. Kabbalah also helps its students to know this: they calculate the numerical values of the Torah in order to find in them encrypted information about being, prophecies about our future destinies - the destinies of all mankind.

What is Kabbalah? This is not just philosophical mysticism, implicated in the Jewish religion. This is a whole world view, which is clearly structured and answers many more questions. So, for example, Kabbalists distinguish five stages of our aspirations (desires):

1. The desire to get full.

2. The desire to get rich.

3. Desire for power and glory.

4. The desire for knowledge.

5. The desire to get closer to the spiritual.

This list reflects the degree of development not only of each of us, but also of civilization in general. And our whole life at every concrete stage is aimed at finding ways to achieve the ultimate goal. In this case, the last desire appears in a person only when everything else he already has and ceases to bring him pleasure. Then there is a need to cultivate spiritually. And at the same time, the person is asking the immemorial question about the meaning of his life.

Hence one of the basic concepts of Kabbalah - "a point in the heart". The heart seems to be represented as the totality of all four, earthly desires, and spiritual perfection is just a point in it.

The answer to the question of what Kabbalah is, even those who call themselves Kabbalists can not give. Only the elite have this information. And all these show business stars, successful, creative people who are trying to achieve spiritual perfection now, simply use this teaching as an advertising sign for themselves. After all, a singer or actress, surrounded by a certain semi-magical halo of secrecy, always attracts much more attention from journalists, viewers and fans.

For many, Kabbalah is just PR, and not otherwise. Take, for example, Philippe Berg, who opened the Kabbalistic Center in Los Angeles. He is well aware that this doctrine today, as they say, "in a trend," therefore encourages his students to "open" to spiritual perfection, giving the Center all their property and money. In return, he promises that Kabbalah will reveal to them his cherished secrets of gaining success and immortality. And willing, it is worth noting, is very much.

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