Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zeppo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!zeppo!mmc From: mmc@zeppo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Cabbalah - (nf) Message-ID: <1070@zeppo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 09:55:11 EST Article-I.D.: zeppo.1070 Posted: Thu Mar 1 09:55:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 00:21:13 EST Sender: mmc@zeppo.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 22 #R:cbosgd:-100200:zeppo:59500002:000:826 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