Post by Freddy on Oct 26, 2012 17:40:49 GMT 11
Ok, so this board is pretty light on for spiritual discussion, so I may as well try to start a discussion going on the subject. So I'll start with my on particular leanings. Without trying to get to bogged down on whose g-d is best, I'll leave that to the other board, where Skippy and Matt can berate you for your depth of thought to their hearts content.
So any way, whilst I am a pretty secular sorta bloke (in that I'm not a regular Schul goer, and really only loosely keep the tradition side of my religion/faith), I do have a "spiritual" leaning( for want of a better phrase) and that leaning is towards the Kabbalah. In essence, I am a "Kabbalist" at heart.
As Chaim Potok once put it, where the Talmud tells a Jew how he must act, the Kabbalah tells us how Judaism feels. It's all quite esoteric, I guess, but for mine, It's an esoteric that fascinates me. Especially from an intellectual point of view.
It's the Kabbalah that shapes the Judaic view of the Devil, in my point of view, in that there is no such "Devil" as such, but rather the evil inclination that exists in us all, as humans (most of the occult is drawn from Kabbalistic texts). Kabbalistic thought also shapes the view that "Hell" is in the here an now, rather than some mythical subterranean dimension that only gets revealed to us in the afterlife.
Any ways, just wanted to post some random thoughts in an effort to kick-start some sort of discussion. The rest is up to you lot.
So any way, whilst I am a pretty secular sorta bloke (in that I'm not a regular Schul goer, and really only loosely keep the tradition side of my religion/faith), I do have a "spiritual" leaning( for want of a better phrase) and that leaning is towards the Kabbalah. In essence, I am a "Kabbalist" at heart.
As Chaim Potok once put it, where the Talmud tells a Jew how he must act, the Kabbalah tells us how Judaism feels. It's all quite esoteric, I guess, but for mine, It's an esoteric that fascinates me. Especially from an intellectual point of view.
It's the Kabbalah that shapes the Judaic view of the Devil, in my point of view, in that there is no such "Devil" as such, but rather the evil inclination that exists in us all, as humans (most of the occult is drawn from Kabbalistic texts). Kabbalistic thought also shapes the view that "Hell" is in the here an now, rather than some mythical subterranean dimension that only gets revealed to us in the afterlife.
Any ways, just wanted to post some random thoughts in an effort to kick-start some sort of discussion. The rest is up to you lot.
