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# cabala

«cabala» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, the world, and the hidden meaning of the Torah. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In these texts it is the name for Jewish mystical teaching, of which Sefer Yetzirah is an early book. Interpretation: Many mystics treat Sefer Yetzirah as a source of Kabbalah. It is said to be a book about how God made the world with the Hebrew letters and the ten sefirot.

### examples

- D., remarked very truly in his German preface to the book "Yezirah," published in Leipzig, 1830: "This book is for two reasons highly important: in the first place, that the real Cabala, or mystical (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cabala» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cabala/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.