"Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה Qabbālā, literally 'reception, tradition')"
This field deals with esoteric and mystical aspects of Judaism, including the study of Kabbalah.
"A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal (מְקוּבָּל Məqūbbāl 'receiver')"
"The definition of Kabbalah varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it"
"Jewish Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between the unchanging, eternal God—the mysterious Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, 'The Infinite')—and the mortal, finite universe (God's creation)."
"These teachings are held by Kabbalists to define the inner meaning of both the Hebrew Bible and traditional rabbinic literature and their formerly concealed transmitted dimension, as well as to explain the significance of Jewish religious observances."
"Historically, Kabbalah emerged from earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th- to 13th-century Spain and Southern France"
"The Zohar, the foundational text of Kabbalah, was composed in the late 13th century."
"Isaac Luria (16th century) is considered the father of contemporary Kabbalah"
"Lurianic Kabbalah was popularized in the form of Hasidic Judaism from the 18th century onwards."
"The Jewish historian Gershom Scholem has inspired the development of historical research on Kabbalah in the field of Judaic studies."
"The major texts in the main line of Jewish mysticism that inarguably fall under the heading 'Kabbalah' are the Bahir, Zohar, Pardes Rimonim, and Etz Chayim ('Ein Sof')."
"The early Hekhalot writings are acknowledged as ancestral to the sensibilities of Kabbalah."
"The Sefer Yetzirah--a brief document of only few pages written centuries before the high and late medieval works"
"Sefer Yetzirah... detailing an alphanumeric vision of cosmology"
"It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism."
"Traditional practitioners believe its earliest origins pre-date world religions, forming the primordial blueprint for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems."
"Kabbalah emerged from earlier forms of Jewish mysticism... and was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical renaissance in 16th-century Ottoman Palestine."
"It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within Judaism... and its later adaptations in Western esotericism."
"The unchanging, eternal God—the mysterious Ein Sof (אֵין סוֹף, 'The Infinite')"
"the mortal, finite universe (God's creation)"