Kabbalah

in a sentence

Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

"There are no Kabbalists in Sighet," my father would often tell me.†  (source) Elie Wiesel, Night, 1960

This lore and the techniques for rediscovering and utilizing it constitute the Kabbala.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

But it was not the Talmud that he studied, it was the Kabbalah, the books of Jewish mysticism.†  (source) Chaim Potok, The Chosen, 1967

There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

One evening, I told him how unhappy I was not to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.†  (source) Elie Wiesel, Night, 1960

Text encrypted with Atbash is found throughout the Kabbala, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even the Old Testament.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

For example, Abu Aharon, an early Kabbalist who emigrated from Baghdad to Italy, was said to perform miracles through the power of the Sacred Names.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

The cabala of this erotic philosophy seemed to consist of the subtlest meanings expressed in misleading ways.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874

The rabbis had forbidden the study of the Kabbalah, and so Israel had to study in secret.†  (source) Chaim Potok, The Chosen, 1967

Some Kabbalists divided up the letters of the alphabet according to where they were produced inside the mouth.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

This kabbalistic text is a commentary to the scene in Genesis where Adam gives forth Eve.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

This is the anthropomorphic personification of the power of generation, the Mighty Living One, as it is called in the Kabbala.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949