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I guess I just don't get this. What I learned of Kabala when I was young was that it was a very esoteric form of mysticism, and required years and years of study BEFORE beginning to take it up. The vast majority of Rabbis don't study it simply because it's so daunting.

But people who know nothing about Judaism take it up as their "spirituality?" Sounds like people trying to take a shortcut to "enlightenment." But it seems like someone trying to understand linear equations before understanding basic arithmetic.

Mark

8 posted on 06/05/2008 6:09:24 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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But it seems like someone trying to understand linear equations before understanding basic arithmetic.

It is more like "trying to understand non-linear differential equations before understanding basic arithmetic"

9 posted on 06/05/2008 8:41:53 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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