where was kabbalah founded?
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ita an ancient many thousands of years old jewish art, perhaps it was founded in israel? (before other people occupied the jewish nation)\nIt has nothing to do with the "devil" which is a silly christian invention
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There was apparently a small sect of Jews who followed a rabbi they called "Christ" which would be really odd since "Christ" is Greek.\n\nBut, ignoring Hebrews who used Greek to describe their rabbi, in 325 CE (ad), Judaism was grafted into paganism by Roman Emperor Constantine and became known as "Christianity" although Constantine never referred to his brand new religion as "Christian," he called it the "Universal (Catholic means universal in Latin) Religion."\n\nThe original "Christianity," assuming it actually existed, died long before Constantine invented his brand new religion and banned its practice (if it existed in the first place).\n\nAnd anyone who refused to adopt Constantine's brand new religion was executed.\n\nThat's a summary of what most people call "Christianity."
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Judaism's answer is that Gd started Judaism when He revealed Himself to Abraham, entered into a covenant with Abraham, and continued to re-establish, and reaffirm that same covenant with Abe's son Isaac, again with Isaac's son Jacob, and then again through Jacob's 12 sons who became the 12 tribes, and then again with their descendants, the entire Jewish people, through Moses at Mt. Sinai, and on and on through Jewish history. \n\nMark Twain wrote:  ""The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then . . . passed away. The Greek and the Roman followed. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts. … All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"" The answer to Twain's question, What is the secret of his immortality is that Judaism was started by Gd.
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Jewish mysticism.  The word Kaballah means "receive".  This is knowledge received by Moses at Sinai and passed down orally only to a few each generation. What the Kaballah Center and others teach is not Kaballah, but just a few basic concepts that make people go "ooh, ahh" but have no real substance.\n\nyou spelled it just fine...it's tranliterated from hebrew, so anything that gets the pronounciation close is okay
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exactly what richbro said "islamic mysticism" much like kabbala is jewish mysticism, hey theres wikipedia or askjeeves.com for such things
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the best website to learn about judiasm is most definitely www.chabad.org! it has everything you want to know about judiasm but from the chabad (a sect of Judiasm) perspective, which is very positive and inviting and intereseting too! But basically, the core of our religion was summed up by Maimonidies in the 13 principles of faith. they are 1)G-d created the world 2)G-d is one 3)G-d is unlimited by physical form or nature's limits 4)G-d was before the world and will be after - eternal 5)G-d is the only one that we can pray to 6)the words of a real prophet are true (there are ways to test a real prophet) 7)Moses is the greatest prophet of all time 8)Every part of Torah was given to Moses at Mt. Sinai 9)The Torah hasn't and won't ever change 10)G-d knows the thoughts and actions of everyone 11)G-d has His system of rewarding for good and punishing for bad (that we can't understand) 12)Messiah is coming and we must await him every day! 13)those who deserve it will be resurrected in the times of Messiah\n\nThose are the core faiths, basically G-d made us and gave us a Torah (Bible) that we listen to, not becasue it makes sense but because that is who we are, and we do our best to follow the commandments, thereby attaching ourselves ot G-d and bringing the messiah closer! In the Messianic time there will be the completion of Torah, with nothing blocking us from observing it completely (such as the current lack of a Temple). All Jews will gather in the Holy Land and serve G-d together. There will be peace in the land, and most importantly, "the world will be filled with knowledge of G-d like the water that covers the sea!"\nI hope this helps you. If you ahve questions, go to www.askmoses.com, where you can chat with a Chabad rabbi or woman one-on-one and ask any question that you wany. Good luck!\n\nP.S. to ammok: can i tell you something personal? my family is strictly observant, and we have, thank G-d, 8 kids who all attend Jewish school at the cost of about $50,000 per year. That is nearly our family's salary, making us not a very rich family at all. In fact, we go without many of the pleasures that non jews have, like new cars etc.
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According to the book by Dan Brown called "Angels & Demons" a research facility called CERN in Europe (Geneva, Switzerland to be exact) invented the internet.  It started out at as way for the scientists at the facility to view other's research by looking at web pages throughout their network and developed into what it is now.
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kabbalah is not a religion.  it's source is mystical Jewish teachings.  What Madonna and Britney are 'learning' at the Kabbalah Center in LA is not Kabbalah, but a poorly understood, mistranslation of an allegory.  hardly substantial.
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Well, it became a state on January 3rd, 1959.  I'm not quite sure if that's what you mean by "founded," but here's more detail:
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Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was a student of Rabbi Akiva, who was the spiritual leader of the Bar Kochba Revolt against Rome in 135 CE, which began in glory and ended in tragedy. His teacher was one of the four great Sages who entered the "Pardes," the "Orchard" ; specifically, who probed the depths of Kabbalah, and came out mentally and spiritually whole. Clearly, Rabbi Akiva was the recipient of a living tradition which he passed on orally to his beloved student, Rabbi Shimon.\n\nAs a student of the spiritual leader of the revolt, bar Yochai was pursued relentlessly by the Romans. He and his son, Rabbi Elazar ben Shimon, took refuge in a cave, where they remained for thirteen years.\n\nIn the Cave\n\nDuring those years, Rabbi Shimon studied Torah with his son, the Revealed Torah and the Hidden, or Secret, Torah, the "Torat HaSod," also known as "Kabbalah," and translated, or mistranslated as "Jewish Mysticism."\n\nRabbi Shimon wrote down the latter material, for the first time, in a book called the "Zohar," meaning "Splendor" or "Radiance." This mystical tradition, kept alive by the RAMBAN, in his Commentary to the Bible, and others, resurfaced with a vengeance in the sixteenth century, and became the splendor and the glory of the "Ari" (the "Lion"), Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, and his followers in "Tzefat," or Safed, Palestine. It also became the basis of the unique spirituality of Chassidut, founded in the eighteenth century, by Yisrael ben Eliezer, the "Baal Shem Tov," in Eastern Europe.
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http://www.babafarid.org/
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For someone so obsessed about extremely Orthodox letter-of-the-law detail, you certainly didn't pay attention to where you posted this, did you?\n\nThis belongs in Religion/Spirituality, not Teaching/Education.\n\nAnd all of this nitpicking about exact time, etc. on a forum like this is important -- why?  If a new Sanhedrin is established at a renewed site-built Temple in Jerusalem, whether they go computerized or through ancient observation is their headache, not yours.\n\nWorry about your own deeds and influence on the world. Do good for your fellow human and for the community, and the existence of a physical Temple will be inconsequential.
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I mean this, too....where are the Arc of the Covenant and the Holy Grail?  Some say they are hidden in secretive places by the Jews, some say they're hidden beneath the Vatican.  Some say Atlantis sank into the sea near present day Greece and some say it sank off the coast of northern Africa.  Some say...some say...until these things are found or proved true they will remain just that....some say!
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Judaism, from a historical perspective (which is important in understanding it's philosophy) even though it's considered "Western", has it's origins in the Middle East, of course.  It is the spiritual ancestor of both Christianity *and* Islam.\n\nIt is a religion of the people of Israel and includes faithful devotion to one God (the God of their tribes) and believes that Divine teaching was revealed by this one God to the fathers and mothers of the people of Israel through Moses and the Prophets and Sages.\n\nThe goal of the Covenant between the Jews and their tribal God is relatively simple as it's base:\n\nA good life for all, through obedience to God's teachings (Torah) and Commandments (Mitzvot); harmony on earth (individual and societal) culminating in peace and well-being for all humanity, through all peoples' acceptance of their God as the primary/universal/only God.  This acceptance does NOT mean conversion, however - it means that non-Jews must simply abide by the moral laws (separate from the covenant between God and the Jews) that God requires of them.\n\nJudaism is classified as a religion of deed, of acts, rather than faith. God needs the faithful (Jews) just as much as people need God.  It is through the right actions of the faithful that the order of the universe is maintained and chaos is held at bay.\n\nIt is a "Way" by which humans are capable of understanding and responding to the teachings of their God.\n\nAs Judaism developed, the concept of God as their tribal God changed into a "universal" God, who was responsible for a universal Creation , with a universal Revelation to Moses and the people at Mount Sinai, leading to the Redemption of Israel and all humanity.\n\nThere is a vast body of teaching and lore that has grown up over centuries, much of which takes the form of interpretation of the oldest biblical texts; the Halacha or "Way", and the Aggada, a collection of stories, homilies, parables, and poetry.  The Talmud is a rabbinic text (meaning "Teaching"), and is second only to the Bible in importance.\n\nThe mystic teachings of Judaism, collectively, is the Kabbalah (the received tradition) which teach of the emanation of the Godhead into the world, the experience of communion with God in transcendence of the self, and the maintenance of the balance and order of the cosmos through human action in Covenant with God.\n\nIn this way,  Jews are panentheists - that is to say, for them, as in  many other religious traditions, God is both in everything and beyond containment in anything.\n\n********\nNote: I'm not Jewish, just a student of religions.  I'm more than willing to be corrected on anything here that I've misunderstood.
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In Cambria, UK.  It was founded in 1166 to house Augustinian Canons.
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IT WAS FOUNDED IN AFRICa> LIKE THATS WHERE IT WAS FIRST. IF THAT HELPS? VOTE ME AS BEST ANSWEr.
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Christianity developed from Judaism. Both started in Israel. Judaism was founded by a series by a range of figures including Adam, Noah and Abraham. It is claimed that it started as a formal religion after God handed Moses the ten commandments. Both Judaism and Christianity pray to the same God and both are monotheistic.\n\nThe founder of Christianity was Jesus with the 12 apostles as well as St Paul playing a crucial role in spreading the religion. The holy book in Judaism is the Torah or Old Testament. The holy book for Christians is the Bible consisting of the Old and New Testaments. Christians view Jesus both as the Messiah and as the son of God. Followers of Judaism acknowledge neither claim.