Three Streams of Kabbalah

The Kabbalah offers three types of answers to these questions. Because the answers are very different, as are the spiritual techniques involved, scholars, following Moshe Idel, have taken to referring to three streams of Kabbalah. Kabbalists themselves also recognize these three trends within Kabbalah, though it’s important to remember that they don’t see themselves as in one or another stream; there is interpenetration among all three. Like most categories, these streams are helpful orienting generalizations, not hard and fast categories...read more>>>...