5 Toxic Kabbalah Lies Destroying Your Spiritual Path
Kabbalah lies and misconceptions continue to plague sincere spiritual seekers around the world. In the realm of spiritual exploration, Kabbalah is often surrounded by an aura of mystery and numerous myths. Separating truth from fiction in this ancient wisdom is no easy task. Let’s examine the most common misconceptions that can seriously harm those who sincerely strive for spiritual growth.
Kabbalah Lies About Healing Powers
Many famous Kabbalists of the past indeed possessed the gift of healing. However, this doesn’t mean that anyone studying Kabbalah automatically becomes a healer. The key factor here is the purity of intention and the spiritual level of the practitioner.
If someone who is not a true righteous person attempts Kabbalistic healing, their methods become a dangerous mixture of light and darkness. When good mixes with evil in unknown proportions, the result is almost always negative.
Using letters of the holy language to direct thoughts during prayers for healing is permissible. For example, the letter “tet” in Kabbalah corresponds to the left kidney. One can mentally contemplate this letter while asking the Almighty for healing, but never pray to the letter itself.
Interestingly, many righteous individuals who possessed unusual abilities in their youth eventually abandoned them, understanding that these powers interfered with their sincere service and spiritual growth.
Fortune-Telling: Dangerous Kabbalah Lies
In each generation, there are righteous individuals who have reached a spiritual level close to prophetic. Their intuitive knowledge of the future is the result of many years of spiritual work.
However, any attempts to use Kabbalah for predictions through rituals or esoteric reasoning are strictly forbidden by Jewish law and border on sorcery.
A common misconception is the connection between Kabbalah and astrology, Tarot cards, and numerology. Although the Book of Yetzirah establishes a correspondence between 12 Hebrew letters and zodiac signs, the sages emphasize: “There is no star for Israel.” This means that the Jewish people are beyond the influence of zodiac signs.
Particularly harmful is the practice when people who meet with the intention of marriage consult “Kabbalists” to discover their compatibility based on their names. Such divinations are meaningless and have nothing to do with true Kabbalah.
Eastern Practices: Perpetuating Kabbalah Lies
There is a myth that Eastern spiritual practices are connected to Jewish wisdom through “gifts” that Abraham gave to his children from concubines, sending them “to the eastern land.”
However, the Torah clearly states that Abraham sent these children “away from Isaac,” the only true heir to his spiritual mission. Even if the origins of Eastern practices are connected to Abraham’s children (which is unlikely), they are contaminated with idolatry and therefore forbidden.
Any “Jewish Reiki,” “Jewish Yoga,” or “Jewish Tai Chi” is a dangerous mixture of the pure with the impure. The names of these practices carry within them the spiritual power of specific impurity. One should not only avoid engaging in such “adapted” practices but even refrain from uttering these words in the context of Jewish spirituality.
Reincarnation Misconceptions
In Judaism, the concept of soul reincarnation (gilgul) differs significantly from Eastern notions of reincarnation. It’s not a fatal cycle of punishment for sins of past lives, but a new opportunity for the soul to receive a charge of divine energy to fulfill its mission.
Unlike Eastern teachings, where suffering is explained by “karma,” the Jewish approach teaches care for improving the reality of this world. For a Jew, the world is real, has meaning and purpose, and is not an illusion.
Protecting Yourself
Beginners studying Kabbalah need to observe precautions so that the spiritual power contained in this teaching brings benefit, not harm.
The three main dangers:
- Attempting to study Kabbalah without observing the commandments. This is like creating a soul without a body—such an “experiment” can lead to the soul leaving the body prematurely.
- Choosing an unworthy teacher. Even a teacher with good intentions, but ignorant in other areas of Torah, can transmit distorted knowledge.
- Studying only the technical side of Kabbalah without understanding its deeper meaning. True understanding requires perception at both intellectual and emotional levels.
To avoid these dangers, the Baal Shem Tov recommended beginning the study of Kabbalah through the lens of Hasidism, following three stages of consciousness improvement: humility, separation, and harmonization.
Source: “Gates to the world of Kabbalah. Wonders of thy wisdom” https://www.jrbooks.org/product/gates-to-the-world-of-kabbalah-wonders-of-thy-wisdom/ By Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
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