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'''Kabbalah''' is a form of Jewish mysticism that either takes shape in 13th century Spain with a group of Jewish mystics, or during the Exodus while Moses was talking to God if you are a Jewish mystic. Different Jewish denominations have different stances towards Kabbalah. More modern denominations, such as Reform and Conservative Judaism, think Kabbalah itself is nonsense but the academic study of Kabbalah is valid scholarship. Chassidic Judaism, on the other hand, takes Kabbalah pretty seriously, and Orthodox Judaism has views in both camps. It has reached wide popularity via a shiny, Power-of-Positive-Thinking version that Madonna has been wearing since about 1997, but this is only one of the dozens of movements trying to claim the word as their own. Books about Kabbalah tend to have less in common with one another than books about cooking do.

The Kabbalah is also known for the snazzy tree pattern known as ''the Tree Of Life'', whose leaves are the Ten Sephirot, connected by 22 paths (each associated with one letter of the Hebrew alphabet). These ten spheres are connected in a pattern that shows how God emmanates into our level of reality.

== Anime and Manga ==

* [[666 Satan]]: The Kabbalah is shown throughout the series as a sort of sandwich on the earth.

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