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# kabbalah

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

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The word means "received" and refers to teaching handed down. Sefer Yetzirah is one of its earliest books, though scholars and tradition differ about its age.

### examples

- Thus Gedaliah Ibn Yahya, in his „Slialshelet ha-Kabbalah, says : (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kabbalah/#x1)
- "He composed the Sefer Mechiltin, and the Sefer Yetzirah on Kabbalah. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kabbalah/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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