Smapti, Kabbalah, And Cultural Appropriation

[DocCathode]

@Locrian

I say we leave him alone for now.

This isn’t about him alone. Quite a few people have said ‘Yeah, it is cultural appropriation. But why are you uspet about it?’

@Locrian

It’s worth discussing for some who are familiar with Kabbalah. I’m not, unfortunately.

I posted the basics earlier in this thread. Here they are again for those who missed them-

@DocCathode

A very large part of what he is doing wrong is not understanding basic Kabbalah. Kabbalah is based on a few basic things-

There is no God but the God of Abraham.
God gave the entirety of the Torah (even the parts that hadn’t happened yet) to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Hebrew is sacred and mystically potent in a way no other language is.
The Hebrew letters of the Torah (again the same as when given to Moses on Moun Sinia) reveal great mystical secrets and great power.

Rituals from the Kabbalah require emotional control, mental focus, fluency in Hebrew, and years of studying Talmud. They must be done exactly and with surgical precision.

If you believe you can change the rules or the ritual, you haven’t studied at all.
If you change from Hebrew to any other language, everything you do is worthless.

You can spend a lite time studying Kabbalh. Those are the basics.

Again, altering Kabbalh to ‘work’ with another religion makse no sense atl. People have been doing it for a very, very long time though.