One teacher contrasted this movement to a "wellspring of wisdom below" by suggesting that it is aset of "gates of wisdom above" that will open in the year 6600.
One teacher contrasted this movement to a "wellspring of wisdom below" by suggesting that it is aset of "gates of wisdom above" that will open in the year 6600. The Vilna Gaon wrote commentariesin the method of this movement, whose Cordoverian branch was displaced by the Lurianic branch.One founder of this intellectual tradition died on the 33rd day of the Omer. This tradition's namemeans "reception," and it believes in a type of will called "crown," or keter. Adherents use a (*)tree-like diagram to show ten interlinked "emanations" of the infinite, called sefirot. This tradition'sfounding text, the Zohar, used methods such as numerology to reinterpret the Talmud and Torah. For 10points, name this tradition of Jewish mysticism.
One teacher contrasted this movement to a "wellspring of wisdom below" by suggesting that it is aset of "gates of wisdom above" that will open in the year 6600.
Kabbalah [prompt on "Judaism"; prompt on "Jewish mysticism"]