By Ed Finn — 2003
“Kabbalah” comes from the Hebrew word meaning “tradition” or “received knowledge.” Kabbalists claim their beliefs date back to the origins of the Torah.
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About 200 years ago, a Jewish scholar in Germany wrote a work called Judaism in Its Main Streams (or Hauptstroemungen, in German). In doing so, he created a new term, one that had never existed before: “Mainstream Judaism.”
Warren Kenton talks about the ancient Jewish tradition of Kabbalah and what it can teach us in the present day