Kabbalah's Changing Languages
The Reason for Kabbalah's Changing Languages Throughout History
If Kabbalah speaks of the spiritual world which doesn’t change, then why has Kabbalah itself changed throughout history?
The spiritual world is comprised of forces that precede everything taking place in our world. There are no words or languages in the spiritual world; rather words and languages are consequences in our world of causal forces operating in the spiritual world.
Kabbalists, who attain the sensation of the spiritual world and wish to express their attainments, do so using words structured according to four languages:
1. The language of the Bible
2. The language of the Hagada (legends)
3. The language of the Talmud
4. The language of Kabbalah (Sefirot, Partzufim and Worlds)
Most Kabbalists use the language of Kabbalah, because it is the most precise and scientific language for describing the spiritual world.
The reason that these languages came about, and that different languages are used in different historical periods, is that each language caters to the needs of its generation’s desires. Each new generation spawns a Kabbalist who rewrites the wisdom of Kabbalah to suit the desires of that generation.
Related Material:
- Why Does the Kabbalistic Language Use Names from This World - Rav Michael Laitman, PhD discusses the reason for Kabbalah's use of words in this world to describe objects in the spiritual world.
