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KABBALAH, the Jewish mysticism 
Yaakov, Béla Orbán
Kabbalah: tradition, mystic teaching
More and more people from Jewish and Christian communities are looking for drilling mysteries, knowing secrets and all mystic things that can seem to be exciting.
Others, unbelievers, as western stars (musicians, singers, actors, etc.), study and use the kabbalah.
So refreshing kabbalah’s mysticism, they meet themselves in the ownership of occult powers!
As all secrets or attractive things that at first can seem to be harmless, kabbalah can also appear as "spiritual" or even "charismatic".
Nevertheless, man uses enigma and this mysticism to maintain his own power.
Kabbalah is also used in these purposes and also drives people in the whirlpool of the negative powers of the spiritual world.
Today's humanity which is characterized by the waiting and the expectation of miracles, does not look for its " Jewish roots " at the right place, since the kabbalah is the "Hidden Wisdom" of the Wise men of the Talmud (hohma nistara), and not the Revealed Word of God (His Laws, prophecies and promises) that were never hidden from the eyes of the humankind.
Dangerous teaching - as it was often defined by the Jewish community. Its teaching was only permitted to men of more than 40 years. The hidden, veiled and "higher" things have always attracted people who tempt, by their reason, their feelings and their philosophies or simply by the idolatry going on in their own heart to find solutions to their lives' problems. It is a trap; since kabbalah shows beautiful promises, presenting them in a very refined way while itself being totally impure.
The followers of the kabbalah, the big kabbalists, made long researches during decades to discover the truth - unfortunately in the wrong place.
Then, from this tendency was born the "popular tendency", the simplified version: the Hasidism which also has a penchant for all that is mystic. Both tendencies feed themselves and result from the same root…
With time, mysticism also appeared among Christians whose numerous elements are coming from the kabbalah.
The resemblances between Hasidism and charismatic are obvious and visible all their way long, since both of them are connected to mysticism, moreover, the false charismatic is the daughter of the mysticism from which it comes from.
The same way as there are pure Hasidim (the Jewish equivalents of the Christian pietism), we can find idolatries who go until pure occultism, blinded Hasidim, which Christian equivalents are the charismatic sorcerers, the idolatry manipulators …
Even more interesting would be the analysis of the situation of the Jews who became Christian after having left the reformed Judaism (wing of the Jewish religion which also results from the kabbalah and from Hasidism having gone away from the original Laws of the Torah).
What kind of Jew of the "messiah" will they be? Those who in spite of having left these things, have never been purified and released from their past?
Because this path can easily lead until auto-redemption and the New Age!
But to understand better the relations between these various movements and tendencies, let us look into the subject of Hasidism for a while!
HASIDISM
The Jewish community uses two terms to define those who try hard to live in devotion and in holiness, in a fervent religiosity:
- Tzadik (true, just, devoted) / we shall talk about them in a further teaching /
- Hasid: the one who tries hard to reach an exceptional level of devotion (hesed).
However, they try to carry this out in a very particular way:
A state of internal psychic boiling point (hitlahabut), noisy and dizzy ceremonies, the excessive mystic contemplation, soul diving (kavvana), exaggerated ecstasies, as well as the detachment of the material life and the sensual existence (bittul ha-fech), such are their receipts to reach this level of "devotion".
The purpose is a rather particular deepening of the being in God..
It is with these characteristics that neo-Hasidism started in the middle of the 18th century.
Among the reasons of the birth of this movement, we find the confusion, the superstition and the partiality of the Jews of Poland who were plunged into the depths of the mysticism of the kabbalah, as well as their idolatry towards their spiritual leader (Tzadik).
The term Hasidim is the synonymous of pious, thus the same as the word pietism, and shows many spiritual resemblances with certain branches of the Christian charismatic movements!
Its 3 basic principles are:
- a blind faith, without conditions in the person of the spiritual leader (Tzadik)
- the fusion with God (Shekina).
- Courage
In what follows, it is necessary to analyze the resemblances between the charismatic movements and the neo-Hasidism as well as their origins.
The need of this double analysis is even more obvious, since these three principles also became the base and the tools of power among the neo-Protestant and Pentecostal assemblies. The motto by which they are attracting the crowds of people maintained and living in a state of spiritual infantilism identical to the one that the Polish Jews of that time used to live in.
A particularly interesting thing would be to analyze the likeness between Hasid idolatry (glorifying the memory of their big Tzadik founder of the movement, calling upon his dead spirit, considering him as the Messiah) and the catholic charismatic... The results of such an analysis could prevent the unification of these two identical spirits that are very dangerous as for Jews as for the ones belonging to Christ...
Jewish Mysticism / kabbalah / charismatic sorcery
One of the essence of human nature is the research of the alien, the resolution of problems and the explanation of the veiled and secret things.
Man does it well and badly, reaches the limits established by God, but very often passes through them.
This is the way that he gets acquainted with the mysticism and with all of what he does not simply make the experiment, but that he also uses, so getting in touch with the spiritual world. The spiritual world for its part is able to bring changes sometimes even visible in the life and in the situation of these persons.
Although the intention is good, in the majority of the cases, the experiments shared between the people become methods behind which foreign powers acquire the right to exist and to get in action.
Jewish mysticism thus exists and it is false, but in the same way, there are false charismatic. It is by comparing both of them, that we would be able to recognize what is common in them, and even to discover their identical characteristics.
All the spiritual experiments and other miracles can only be judged by the Spirit of God, but there still remain some that are recognizable and perceivable by our simple conscience.
During Pesah, we read in 2Kings, 23 the words of the recovering of Israel as well as of the renewal of the Covenant between Israel and God:
King Josiah abolished the idolatry, burned the objects of offerings to pagan gods and killed their priests, "Together with all those who worshiped, who made offerings and burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven…" (verses 4-6)
Is it possible that all this does still work today?
We unfortunately all know that the worship to these gods (Baal and Ashera) is still going on these days.
And what about the "host of heaven"?
In other words, miracles, experiments, signs together with the Holy Spirit Itself, can all be idols today?
Would it be possible that charismatic sorcery is no other than these things that Josiah has exterminated at that time?
Wouldn’t the Anointed King after having restored, reestablished and reinforced the Law and the Covenant, go on purifying and sanctifying everything before the return of Yeshua HaMashiach?
When do the gifts and all that God sends to us become idols in our lives?
Or do Baal and Ashera have their places besides the Holy Spirit like in those times?
Or perhaps is this idolatry which opens the doors and cohabits without any obstacle with charismatic sorcery?
Let us watch out and be aware about what is happening around us...
Translated from hungarian by Richard (Zeev Shlomo)
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