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Ezekiel Sparked A Secret Tradition
- The opening Ezekiel vision drove a secretive Jewish interpretive tradition focused on mystical ascent.
- Kabala (kabbalah) means 'tradition' and developed as an esoteric transmission often kept oral.
Zohar Is Medieval, Not Antiquity
- The medieval Zohar presents itself as ancient but is likely a 13th-century work from Moses of Leon's circle.
- Older texts like the Book of Creation prefigure kabbalistic themes such as ten and twenty-two symbolic elements.
Ten Powers Mediate The Ineffable
- Kabbalah centralizes ten Cephe Rot (sefirot) as divine powers that mediate between the ineffable God and creation.
- These sefirot function like attributes or names, allowing relational and dynamic interaction within the divine.