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# cabala

noun

«cabala» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

In these texts it is the name for Jewish mystical teaching, of which Sefer Yetzirah is an early book.

**Interpretation.** Many mystics treat Sefer Yetzirah as a source of Kabbalah. It is said to be a book about how God made the world with the Hebrew letters and the ten sefirot.

### Meaning

A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/#m1)

### Examples

- D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cabala» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cabala» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/cabala.html) on Mova free.