Kabbalah

Pronunciations

Kabbalah	(kah-bah-LAH)
Kubbalah	(kah-BAH-luh)
kabbalah	(Kuh-BUH-luh)

Definitions

• n. A Jewish mystical work, sometimes used as a catch-all term for Jewish mysticism. "The Jewish mystical tradition." (JPS)
  

Example Sentences

• "Kabbalah teaches going beyond the daily rituals and finding a deeper and more spiritual connection to God."
  

Languages of Origin

• Textual Hebrew

Etymology

• קבלה
  

Who Uses This

• Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
• Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

Regions

• North America

Dictionaries

• The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
• The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
• The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
• Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings

kabalah, kabbala, cabala, kabala