User talk:Blackh

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Can someone please summarize what exactly is the benefit to someone on a physical and spiritual level of being an adherent to Kabbalah? I read the article and I either missed something or it was too vague for me to catch. I admit that I skimmed much of this massive article but I would appreciate some specific goals of Kabbalah. Thanks to anyone who helps on this. Jtpaladin 22:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear Blackh, You replied below.

"I agree the goals are basically missing from the article, and I think the doctrine is not explained well at all. I agree that Kabbalah is mysticism. Perhaps if we can devise an explanation of the goal of Kabbalah that enough of us Kabbalists agree with, it can be put into the article. Here are some ideas to start the discussion off: The goal of Kabbalah is emphatically to redeem the world. Kabbalah includes a cosmology, which functions like a map of mental territory that lies beyond our normal way of thinking.

JS Normal= intellect? Mysticism being defined as 'beyond the intellect is consistent with this non-normal way of thinking

Are you open to the idea that the term Kabala(myriad of spellings) has been used to refer to a system of knowledge addressable by the intellect in that it uses well-defined symbols within a system of logic? If so please reply to my talk page or johnshoemaker30@yahoo.comJohnshoemaker (talk) 09:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)