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Cabalism
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a mystical tradition in Judaism that explores the hidden, symbolic meanings within Jewish scripture and religious texts
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Cabalism first emerged in medieval Spain and Southern France, where Jewish mystics and scholars developed this new approach to spirituality and Scripture.
Academic interest in cabalism has grown, as scholars seek to understand the historical development and spread of this mystical tradition.
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the specific doctrines, teachings, and texts that comprise the theological content of Jewish mysticism
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Which texts were considered genuinely representative of cabalism's secret teachings was a subject of debate.
Scholars have worked to reconstruct the original contours of medieval Jewish cabalism by analyzing surviving texts of its cosmological cabalisms.
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