What is Kabbalah?

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/2h9b30rzWhn Special thanks to Seth Weprin for co-writing this episode. Thanks to Gavi from @UNPACKED for reading an early draft. Join my online seminars on ancient religion: https://www.speakeasy.com/speaker/andrew-henry Or, join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast References: Boaz Huss, "All You Need Is LAV: Madonna and Postmodern Kabbalah," The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Fall 2005). Burack, C. D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience: the Transfiguration of the Reader, 2005. Gershom Scholem. “First Lecture: General Characteristics of Jewish Mysticism.” In "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism," 1-39. Jerusalem, Israel: Schocken Books, 1974. Joseph Dan, "Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction," 2007. Yaacob Dweck, "The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice." Itzik Lodzer (Arthur Green), “Notes from the Jewish Underground: Psychedelics and Kabbalah,”  Response 2:1 (Winter 1968): 9-21. Steven T. Katz, Comparative Mysticism: an Anthology of Original Sources. Oxford University Press, 2013. Harriet Ryan and Kim Christensen. “Celebrities Gave Kabbalah Centre Cachet, and Spurred Its Growth.” Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2011.