Talk:Jewish mysticism

Redirection to Kabbalah
This should not be! Kabbalah is not the only manifestation of Jewish mysticism. An automatic redirect from Jewish mysticism to Kabbalah might also suggest that Kabbalah is a standard part of mainstream Judaism, which is not the case. This should be a disambiguation page. --Ori Livneh (talk..contribs) 17:26, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, but: Nowadays, the only followed forms of Jewish mysticism are 1 Kabbalah and 2 Hasidic Judaism, which is based on Kabbalah (you could call it "Hasidic Kabbalah"). See the full present-ongoing discussion of this Jewish mysticism page development issue at Talk:Kabbalah (begun February 2013, in case it becomes archived in the future). N.B. You said, "An automatic redirect from Jewish mysticism to Kabbalah might also suggest that Kabbalah is a standard part of mainstream Judaism, which is not the case." - why is "Jewish mysticism" more mainstream itself than Kabbalah? It seems just as mainsteam/heterodox itself. However, I do think that Kabbalah is mainstream to Judaism: Before the Haskalah, it's theology in Lurianic Kabbalah was basically universal. Since the Haskalah, and with the modern culture of personal autonomy/choice, it remains an equally valid, and equally mainstream personal option in Jewish theology to a) a ressurgent Maimonidean Medieval Jewish philosophy Orthodox Judaism rationalism, or 2) a Non-Orthodox Judaism modern Jewish philosophy rationalism, or 3) a Neo-Hasidic Non-Orthodox Judaism Reform/Reconstructionist non-fundamentalist Kabbalism.


 * However, I do like your idea to make this a dissambiguation page. April8 (talk) 21:37, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Discussion on Talk:Kabbalah page
N.B. This is being discussed on Talk:Kabbalah (begun February 2013).

I've redirected this redirect page to Kabbalah section. April8 (talk) 21:37, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

On second thoughts, as explained on Talk:Kabbalah (see there), I'll turn this into the dissambiguation page discussed above April8 (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Antisemitism
If ya google this wikipedia entry, the first thing that pops up is a rather antisemitic picture
 * Indeed there is a strange pic there, which is copied from a Youtube video produced by somebody called Kalman Bland PhD. You can blame Google and that guy, but not wikipedia. we had nothing to do with it. -Roxy, the dog. barcus 15:27, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Proposal for new WikiProject
I have made a proposal at WikiProject Council for a new WikiProject  - WikiProject Mysticism. I wonder whether any readers of this article would like to join me in helping this WikiProject get started? Vorbee (talk) 07:32, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Dates - CE/BCE vs BC/AD
Is there a reason why an article about Jewish tradition is using /Christian/ dating rather than its secular equivalents? Even in academic scholarly works, Jewish authors and some non-Jewish but culturally respectful secular academics use CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before the Common Era). It is jarring to use Jesus Christ as a dating reference point in an article about a Jewish cultural phenomenon (AD = Anno Domino = In the year of our Lord, Lord = Christ; BC = Before Christ) when there is a perfectly good academically accepted and secular equivalent. 2A02:ED0:6DD1:1400:DD87:F77D:3F52:6958 (talk) 08:34, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
 * The article previously had a mixed usage. I have revised it to be consistent. Editor2020 (talk) 18:32, 25 June 2021 (UTC)