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4 days ago · Kabbalah or Qabalah (/ k ə ˈ b ɑː l ə, ˈ k æ b ə l ə / kə-BAH-lə, KAB-ə-lə; Hebrew: קַבָּלָה , romanized: Qabbālā, lit. 'reception, tradition') is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (מְקוּבָּל , Məqūbbāl, 'receiver').
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1 day ago · Therefore, the Tannaim were forced to go north, and settled in the area of Meron, Tzfas, and Teveria. However, the true home of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai, whom the Arizal reveals to be a gilgul of Moshe Rabbeinu, remains in Yerushalayim, the city of the Kodesh Hakodoshim.
3 days ago · Meanwhile, the Rabbi Chanina of the second source, at the end of Berachot about Torah scholars bringing peace, is a transitional Tanna / Amora. As Rav Hyman writes in Toledot Tannaim vaAmoraim in the entry of Rabbi Chanina bar Chama, this is the Rabbi Chanina in the famous statement at the end of Berachot and elsewhere. If so, the Rabbi Eleazar ...
23 hours ago · This code built upon his brilliant precis of previous law going from the Tannaim, the early sages, up through the Rishonim and his own time, called the Beit Yosef (and styled as a commentary on the fourteenth-century code of R. Yaakov Ben Asher, the Arbaa Turim).
2 days ago · Midrash Tannaim on Deuteronomy added to the tradition that these are “the words of Akavia ben (son of) Mahalel” (Midrash Tannaim on Deut. 23:26). Akavia ben Mahalel was a Second Temple sage; we can thus assume that this halakha was not established in Babylon but is earlier from the land of Israel.
2 days ago · Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Vues.
