Kabbalah

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/kabbalah

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the nature of study?Esoteric method and discipline within Jewish mysticism
2. What is the originating center?12th-13th century Occitania (Provence and Languedoc)
3. Why do people study Kabbalah?People study Kabbalah to learn deeper meanings in the Bible and to understand how the universe works.
4. How did Kabbalah start?Kabbalah began from earlier Jewish mystical ideas and grew in the 12th and 13th centuries in places like Occitania, with books such as the Bahir.

Ein Sof: The Kabbalistic concept of the Infinite, God beyond all comprehension.
Sefirot: Divine emanations or attributes that structure reality in Kabbalistic cosmology.
Gershom Scholem: Pioneering historian who established Kabbalah as a field of academic study.