The Middle Eastern Origins of Kabbalah
New and alternative insights about the influence of Islam, Karaism, and some pagan cults on the beginning of Kabbalah. Ronit Meroz, Tel Aviv University UCL INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES Kabbalah tells us of God, which reveals itself in ten emanations called Sefirot. The origin of this theology, as described in the Book Bahir, is supposed …