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Subject: Re: Cabbalah - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 09:55:11 EST
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zeppo!mmc    Mar  1 09:55:00 1984

    This is a reposting of a response which did not make it to
    all the MARX machines.  If it got out elsewhere, please
    accept my apologies

The term "Cabbalah" (most commonly "Kabbalah"; sometimes "Qabbalah")
derives from the Hebrew root 'qbl', meaning 'receive'.  Kabbalah
refers to a body of mystical tradition incorporated in a large set
of texts (some printed, others only in manuscript) produced over
the last two millenia.

I think that it is impossible to describe or even classify in thirty
lines the various traditions represented in Kabbalistic literature.
The articles on Kabbalah by the late Gershon Scholem in the
Encyclopedia Judaica have been incorporated in a single
English-language volume entitled "Kabbalah", published, I believe, by
the New York Times Press.

	Mark Chodrow AT&T-BL WH 2C344A X6804