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Definition of Cabbalah
1. Noun. An esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret.
Generic synonyms: Arcanum, Secret
Derivative terms: Cabalistic, Kabbalistic, Qabalistic
2. Noun. An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries.
Generic synonyms: Theosophy
Category relationships: Judaism
Definition of Cabbalah
1. cabala [n -S] - See also: cabala
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabbalah
Literary usage of Cabbalah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Magic by Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt (1854)
"laws of Manu, and the Jewish traditions of the Cabbalah. As I shall have to refer
at a later time to the above-mentioned oriental records, we will now take ..."
2. Jewish Theology: Systematically and Historically Considered by Kaufmann ( Kohler (1918)
"The Cabbalah also divides the soul into three different substances according ...
Fundamentally the Cabbalah considered the soul an emanation from the divine ..."
3. The Renaissance and Welsh Literature: Being a Review of Some of the Welsh by William Meredith Morris (1908)
"The Cabbalah is said to have been taught by God himself to the angels, ...
The problems discussed in the Cabbalah are the nature and attributes of the Deity ..."