Introduction to Kabbalah: What is Kabbalah?

Hello, to the entire Steemit community. Today I want to get away from the story a bit and give them something more than a simple philosophy that I recently met a close friend. It is about the Kabbalah: for many it is considered another religion, but for the minority it is something philosophical far above a religion. It addresses issues of the human body and does not question scientific evolution, always dictating the spiritual.

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It is a discipline and school of esoteric thought, related to Essenes and Hasidic Judaism. It uses several methods to analyze recondite senses of the Torá (sacred text of the Jews, to which the Christians denominate Pentateuco, and that represents the first five books of the Bible).

The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and the goals of those who follow it and thus, its definition differs from its religious origins as an integral part of Judaism or the versions exposed by the most recent esoteric adaptations that indicate that it is part of the Christianity or the New Age (New Age) or Occultism / Western Esotericism.

Kabbalah: That which is received. That which can not be known merely by means of science or intellectual search. An inner knowledge that has been transmitted from teachers to disciples since the dawn of history. A discipline that awakens knowledge of the essence of things.

We enter this world and our senses meet their outer shell. We touch the earth with our feet, the water and the wind splash against our skin, we flee from the bite of the fire. We hear sounds and rhythms. We see shapes and colors. Suddenly we begin to measure, weigh and describe accurately. As scientists, we document the behavior of chemicals, plants, animals and humans. We film them, we observe them under the microscope, we create mathematical models of them, we fill a supercomputer with data about them. From our observations we learn to charge our environment with inventions and gadgets and then give us a pat on the shoulder and say, yes, we are right.

But we ourselves, our consciousness that is examining this world, reside on a deeper level. That's why we can not not ask ourselves, and what about the thing itself? What is there before we measure it? What is matter, energy, time, space, and how did they come into existence?

Explaining our world without examining this inner depth is as superficial as explaining how a computer works by describing the images seen on the monitor. If we see a ball moving on the screen, up and down, would we say that it is bouncing against the base of the screen? Do the gadgets on the scrollbar really have an effect on the page inside the window? Does the menu bar really have pull-down menus hidden behind it?

The author of an easy-to-use software environment has consistently followed consistent rules so we can work comfortably on it. If it is a game of some complexity, I had to determine and follow many rules. But a description of the rules is not a valid explanation of how it works. For that, we have to read your code, examine the hardware, and - more importantly - read your original conceptual statement. We must see it from the point of view of the author, how it was developed step by step from the concept in his mind by means of the code he writes up to reach the bright pixels on the screen.

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The code behind reality, the concept that breathes life into the equation and makes it real. Men and women have sacrificed their food, their comfort, traveled great distances and paid with their own lives to get to know these things. There is no culture in the world that does not have its teachings that describe them.

In the Jewish teachings they are described in the Kabbalah.

According to tradition, the truths of the Cabala were known by Adam. What your mind could contain, no mind since then could. However, he was able to transmit nothing but a very faint part of that knowledge to some of the great souls that descended from Him, such as Janokah and Methuselah. They were the great teachers who taught Noah, who in turn taught his own disciples, including Abraham. Abraham studied at the academy of Noah's son, Shem, and sent his son Isaac to study there as well. Isaac in turn sent his son Jacob to study with Shem and his great-grandson, Ever.

Adam, Noah, Avraham, these were the parents of all mankind. That is why you will find hints of the truths they taught wherever human culture has arrived.

In any case, the essential source of Kabbalah is neither Adam nor Noah nor even Abraham.

It is the event at Mount Sinai, where the primary essence of the cosmos was unveiled for the whole nation to see. It was an experience that left an indelible mark on the Jewish psyche, shaping all our thinking and behavior ever since.

At Sinai, inner wisdom ceased to be a matter of private intuition or revelation. It became a fact that entered our world and became part of the history and experience of ordinary mortals.

That is why Kabbalah can not be considered a philosophy. A philosophy is the product of human minds, something with which any human mind can play, squeezing and stretching according to the dictates of their own intellect and intuition. But Kabbalah means what was received. Received not simply from a teacher, but from Sinai. Once a disciple has mastered the path of this received wisdom, he or she can find ways to extend it as branches of the tree sprout from its trunk. But it will always be an organic growth, never altering the essential life and form of that knowledge. The branches, twigs and leaves will go exactly where it corresponds to that type of tree, a maple will never become an oak, a disciple will never reveal a secret that was not already hidden in the words of his teacher.