February 6, 2003

Qabbalah/Kabbalah

Rabbinic (of the rabbis)

Synagogue

Torah – written and oral revelation at Sinai

Exile and return

Theosophical

Theurgical – influence godhead to do something

Ecstatic

Divine Names

Zohar

Avraham Abulafia

Sabbatai Zvi (Shabbatai Tsevi)

Isaac Luria

Lurianic

Sefirot (numbers, attributes, essence, manifestations)

Mercy and Judgment

Ein Sof (the Endless)

Tetragrammaton (YHVH/YHWH/Jehovah/Yahweh)

Symbolic interpretation

Intentional performance of commandments

Mathematical interpretation

Gimatriyyah (calculating numerical values of letters)

Notariqon (letters as abbreviations of whole words)

Temurah (interchanging of letters)

Sources:

Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives

Daniel Matt, tr. Zohar

Gerschom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

Raphael Ben Zion, tr. Anthology of Jewish Mysticism