In recent years, not only in glossy magazines,but in life you can see people who wear a red thread on their wrist. What does this mean? One of the clearest examples of this is the singer Madonna, who asserts that Kabbalah is a teaching that helps her to live and create, gives happiness, peace and health. Meanwhile, the media do not give us an exhaustive answer to the question posed in the title of the article.
Kabala - religion or science?
It is definitely difficult to answer here.The fact is that Kabbalah followers say: this is a special science - the science of itself, the world around it, the meaning of life. Those who are far from this mysterious trend are skeptical that this is another religion, which may be one of the hidden branches of Judaism, or Buddhism, or something else. There are still some people who generally believe that Kabbalah is something from the category of black magic and magic.
So what is Kabbalah, after all?In order to be objective and impartial, we will give it such a definition. Kabbalah is a scientific religious teaching. Well, due to the fact that for a long time it really was secret, today there are so many legends, fictions and falsifications around it. By the way, to some extent, those who take Kabbalah for an occult current are right - there really is a place for magic, fortune-telling, and predictions.
Until the end of the last century, no one and in the headI would not have asked: "What is Kabbalah?" Starting from this time period, the second breath was literally “opened up” in the secret philosophical doctrine. Today, Kabbalah is experiencing a real boom in popularity - now it brings together people from different countries and almost all sectors of society. What is this - another sect?
The roots of the Kabbalah are Jewish, and the mainsources for her at one time served Jewish books of a religious nature. The word Kabbalah itself is translated from Hebrew as receiving. Adherents of the teachings claim that it helps them find their way in life, which will lead to spiritual comfort.
How often do people who have a life experience?some special, significant event (whether important, good or bad) is asked: “What is the meaning of life?”, “Why do I live?” These and similar questions and famous philosophers of antiquity tried to give an answer. Kabbalah, on the other hand, helps its students to learn this: they calculate the numerical values of the Torah, to find in them encrypted information about being, prophecies about our further destinies - the destinies of all humanity.
Что такое Каббала?This is not just philosophical mysticism mixed up with the Jewish religion. This whole worldview, which is clearly structured and answers many more questions. So, for example, Kabbalists distinguish five stages of our aspirations (desires):
1. The desire to get enough.
2. Desire to get rich.
3. The desire for power and glory.
4. Desire for knowledge.
5. Desire to get closer to the spiritual.
This list reflects the degree of development not onlyeach of us, but in general, civilization as a whole. And all our life at each specific stage is aimed at finding ways to achieve the ultimate goal. In this case, the last desire appears in a person only when everything else he already has and ceases to bring him pleasure. Then there is a need to improve spiritually. And then the person asks the most eternal question about the meaning of his life.
Hence one of the basic concepts of Kabbalah- "point in the heart." The heart seems to be represented as an aggregate of all four, earthly desires, and spiritual perfection is just a point in it.
The answer to the question of what is Kabbalah is noteven those who call themselves Kabbalists can give. Only favorites have this information. And all these stars of show business, successful, creative people who are now trying to achieve spiritual perfection, simply use this teaching as an advertising sign for themselves. After all, a singer or actress, surrounded by a kind of semi-magical aura of mystery, always attracts much more attention from journalists, viewers and fans.
For many, Kabbalah is just PR, and nothing else.Take, for example, Philip Berg, who opened the Kabbalistic Center in Los Angeles. He is well aware that this teaching today, as they say, is “in trend,” therefore it calls on its students to “open up” to spiritual improvement, giving the Center all of their possessions and money. In return, he promises that Kabbalah will reveal to them his cherished secrets of gaining success and immortality. And there are a lot of people willing, it should be noted.
