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Offline ProudToBeSerb

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Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« on: February 23, 2010, 04:12:18 PM »
I have heard that kabala is some jewis book of black magic, is it true?
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2010, 06:05:10 PM »
I have heard that kabala is some jewis book of black magic, is it true?

It is not true. Magic is forbidden in Judaism. There are some cheap books that describe some stupid rituals and call it "Kabala" but they are all frauds.

Kabala describes spiritual world, just like physics describes physical world. But unlike the natural sciences, Kabala concepts are very allegorical, it is impossible to understand them literally. Also, it is very complex, it is impossible to understand it without many years of preliminary study. I don't understand it at all.
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2010, 06:08:15 PM »
I have heard that kabala is some jewis book of black magic, is it true?

It is not true. Magic is forbidden in Judaism. There are some cheap books that describe some stupid rituals and call it "Kabala" but they are all frauds.

Kabala describes spiritual world, just like physics describes physical world. But unlike the natural sciences, Kabala concepts are very allegorical, it is impossible to understand them literally. Also, it is very complex, it is impossible to understand it without many years of preliminary study. I don't understand it at all.

Thanks for explaination...
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 02:59:23 AM »
Kabala is used by sekts..

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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2010, 09:00:09 AM »
Kabala is used by sekts..

Really? Which sects?
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2010, 09:04:27 AM »
I do not know what exactly that is..
When I read your explanation I get the impression that kabala is something that is forbidden by regular Jewish communities? So I assume that it is something that occurs outside regular communities? Well irregular communities I call sekts?
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2010, 09:18:10 AM »
Maybe I said something stupied... If I said, I did not mean to insult anyone.
Well actually this subject does not belong in this section...

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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2010, 09:36:12 AM »
I do not know what exactly that is..
When I read your explanation I get the impression that kabala is something that is forbidden by regular Jewish communities? So I assume that it is something that occurs outside regular communities? Well irregular communities I call sekts?

No. I said that magic is forbidden by Torah. But Kabala is not magic. Kabala is a kind of traditional Jewish literature that describes how G-d governs His Creation. 

Regular people indeed do not study Kabala because it is impossible to understand it without many years of preliminary study. It is like to study relativity theory without knowing arithmetics. But this does not say it is studied by some "irregular communities". Anyone who studied Torah many years can study it.

But when you hear that Madonna (singer) studies Kabala or some "rabbi" opened a Kabala courses, know they are all frauds and bad joke  :)
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2010, 09:39:31 AM »
Maybe I said something stupied... If I said, I did not mean to insult anyone.
Well actually this subject does not belong in this section...

Stupid? No, rather incorrect and inaccurate. But this indeed has little to do with Serbia  :)
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Re: Can someone explain what is kabala(or cabala)?
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2010, 01:01:10 PM »
 :)