[Avodah] Selichos - especially before midnight

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, September 20, 2007 5:32 am, R Arie Folger wrote:
: Bime'hilat kevod Toratkha, I see two conflated issues. Kabbalah is not
: the sum
: total of Jewish mysticism. Die hard Ari-only-fans will equate the two.
: However, there are many other mystical strains, some of which have
: known a continuous tradition, while others are discontinuous.

I think this is another disagreement that is really only about
terminology.

I would have said that Qabbalah is the sum total of Jewish mysticism,
however, Lurianic Qabbalah isn't the sum total of Qabbalah.

E.g. I would consider Sifrei Heichalos to be Qabbalah, although the
Ari za"l didn't focus on scaling through the heichalos and past
various specific mal'akhim to reach the Kisei haKavod.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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