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Welcome to WikiProject Kabbalah. This WikiProject is created for the purpose of further developing articles related to Kabbalah. Kabbalah can best be described as the principal mystical stream of Jewish thought. It has been frequently given the term Jewish mysticism.

Articles

major articles are

• Kabbalah
• Sephirot
• Tree of Life (Kabbalah)
• Gematria
• Qliphoth
• Heichalot
• Jewish angelic hierarchy
• Kabbalistic angelic hierarchy
  

other articles part of this WikiProject can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Kabbalah/watchlist

Participants

Please sign your name and add what you can do to help this project:

1. John Carter 22:09, 7 April 2007 (UTc).
2. Eron Falbo 00:03, 15 March 2012 (GMT). - Experience in Occultist Kabbalah studies, Jewish Hasidic Kabbalah studies and open Kabbalah studies.
3. Java7837 03:43, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
4. Kwork 17:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
5. Abafied 18:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
6. Alan Oldfield 15:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
7. Netzach 16:02, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
8. Namesinger 09:52, 5 February 2008 (MT)
9. Orin Dion (Oren Dayan)
10. RavAlkohen 04:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
    
11. 216.171.96.18 (talk) 20:07, 2 September 2008 (UTC) - this user is interested in chabad.org audio classes, and in the development and discovery of science based on Tanakh. Yosef.garibaldi.gmail (talk) 20:12, 2 September 2008 (UTC) what can i say, it's a public library terminal i'm using right now.
12. hasofer (talk) 19:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
13. mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
14. User:L'Aquatique -- I'm not a Kabbalist, in fact I know very little about it (I'm Reform) but I am organizing a newsletter regarding information for all three Jewish related WikiProjects, including this one, so I guess that makes me a member. : )
15. Shuliavrumi (talk) 15:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
16. NoVomit (talk) 13:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
17. 129.98.197.40 (talk) 00:06, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
18. Lechaim66 (talk) 12:19, 6 September 2010 (UTC) - a Kabbalah student. Would like to differentiate between Kabbalah and Kabbalah as part of Judaism. There is clear evidence in kabbalistic literature of it originating long before Judaism, and of Adam, Abraham, Moses and all the early Judaic sages possessing this wisdom. Therefore, describing Kabbalah as merely a mystical movement within Judaism, let alone claiming that it developed in the Middle Ages, does not illustrate the viewpoint of practitioners of this discipline.
19. Musashiaharon (talk) 05:03, 22 November 2011 (UTC) - Learned mostly from Tanya, in Hebrew, plus a few selections in chassidic literature, also mostly in Hebrew, occasional Yiddish. Can translate to English. My Teacher and Rabbi told me "I never studied Kabbalah, and I don't plan to," even though he himself translated and wrote commentaries for many of the works I studied; and I am much, much less than he. But, I'd like to help.
20. Isaiasad2 (talk) 08:12, 16 November 2016 (UTC) - Interested in the Kabbalah
21. FrederickII (talk) 20:24, 23 November 2016‎ (UTC) - Interested mainly in the Kabbalah Studies.
22. Asher Rosenberg (talk) 16:30, 26 March 2023 (UTC) - Student of Kabbalah. Contributions on Path of the Flaming Sword
23. Nnev66 (talk) 19:08, 21 February 2025 (UTC) Moving my name here from the guestbook. I plan to address maintenance tags on WikiProject Kabbalah pages, particularly finding inline citations. I've been updating this project to be more current - feedback is welcome. Hopefully others, old and new can help out as well.
24. Thomas (talk)11:03 23 May 2025 (UTC) Despite my gentile name, theTorah portion I was called up to read when I came of age at 13 ,some decades past now, speaks of Judges amongst other things. A section commenting this portion in the Zohar speaks of black writing on white bones being rendered in this palette so that our lives would be made legible on the day of judgment which I found so baffling and tantalizing that I *still* find myself short of a final solution in terms of many aspects of this passage (thankfully). I have to sweat blood to read Hebrew, how much more so any Aramaic variant, or German for that matter and can’t speak either worth a kopek but I continue to study. I read in all phases of the literature from the earliest scraps and fragments of paleo-Hebrew up to the present but I have a (now lifelong) special focus in the records and voices speaking between 1923 and 1948. Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin I have almost by heart, lately puzzling over the Talmud, Ezekiel and the whole cataract of documents and near eastern history around 593ish BCE when a vision came to him.(UTc).

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Kabbalah}} to their userpages.

Guestbook

If you are sympathetic to the cause of this project, but for whatever reason choose not to commit yourself to becoming a regular member, please feel free to show your support by signing the list below!:

1. Yosef.garibaldi.gmail (talk) 18:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC) this user is already signed up as a member, but is blazing the trail of the 'way of the non-committed cabala explainer'. the kabala can foretell the future through numbers and as i write this my guardian angel is doing the same thing.this happens to everyone.their angel does what they do and speaks to your friends angel saying exactly what you say to your friend
2. Dchmelik (talk) 04:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
3. CarlSerafino (talk) 18:34, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Kabbalah-themed books available to read online

• Tav, Aleph. The Sefaria Kabbalah Library & related collections (incl. a stunning array of major texts & translations w/lots of tools for research.
• Franck, Adolphe (1926). The Kabbalah: The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews. translated by I. Sossnitz. New York: The Kabbalah Publishing Company.
• Green, Arthur (2004). Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing. ISBN 1-58023-213-2.
• Kaplan, Aryeh (1991). Sutton, Abraham (ed.). Innerspace. New York/Jerusalem: Moznaim Publishing Company.
• Kaplan, Aryeh (1982). Meditation and Kabbalah. Boston: Weiser Books. ISBN 0-87728-616-7.
• Roob, Alexander (2016). Alchemy And Mysticism. Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-4936-3.
• Scholem, Gershom (1987) [1974]. Kabbalah. New York: Dorset Press. ISBN 0-88029-205-9.
• Scholem, Gershom (1965). On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism. tranlated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 0-8052-0235-8.
• Scholem, Gershom (1991) [1962]. On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah. translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel. Westminster: Schocken Books. ISBN 0-8052-1081-4.
• Scholem, Gershom (1987) [1962]. Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi (ed.). Origins of the Kabbalah. translated from the German by Allan Arkush. Philadelphia: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07314-7.
• Seidman, Richard (2015). A New Oracle of Kabbalah: Mystical Teachings of the Hebrew letters. Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press. ISBN 978-1-935952-82-4.
• Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph (2005). Kabbalah of creation: the mysticism of Isaac Luria, founder of modern Kabbalah. translated by Eliahu J. Klein. Berkeley, Calif: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-55643-542-8.

Recent changes to WikiProject Kabbalah articles

Recent changes to WikiProject Kabbalah articles

Wikipedia:WikiProject Kabbalah/watchlist

Goals

• To refine articles dealing with Kabbalah.
• Bring Kabbalah articles up to Featured status.

Projects

• Assess articles for quality and importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Kabbalah/Assessment.
• Refine Kabbalah WikiPortal and WikiPortal template.
• Create a Taskbox template.
• Add all articles relevant to the project to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Kabbalah/watchlist.

Tasks

Old tasks from 2007 that had been completed have been removed and new ones with date have been added to this list. Nnev66 (talk) 21:02, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

• Kabbalah article needs more inline citations, tagged with "more footnotes needed". (May 2025)
• Gematria article needs more complete citations for verification, tagged with "full citations needed". (May 2025)
• Sefirot article needs additional citations for verification, tagged with "more citations needed". (May 2025)
• Many articles within scope of WikiProject Kabbalah have maintenance tags so would be good to address these in general. (May 2025)
• Create article for Light of Tvunah (holy adornment)

Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Kabbalah is one of the religion related WikiProjects.

Templates

{{User WP Kabbalah}} - the project's userbox, which all members can add to their talk pages.

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Kabbalah WikiProject.

{{WikiProject Kabbalah}} - the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all articles relevant to this project.

{{Kabbalah-stub}} - place this stub on any Kabbala related article that is short enough to be a stub.