kabbalist
Hebrew mysticism practitioner
A kabbalist is someone who studies or practices Kabbalah, the tradition of Jewish mysticism concerned with the hidden meanings of scripture and the nature of the divine.
Kabbalists seek esoteric knowledge through meditation, numerology, and interpretation of sacred texts.
The term sometimes extends to anyone engaged in occult or mystical pursuits: He fancied himself a kabbalist, poring over obscure symbols.
Of Jewish religious scholars
Understood by few
- hiddenKept out of sight
- secretiveInclined to conceal
- veiledConcealed or obscured
- hermeticImpenetrably closed off
recondite · cryptic · concealed · abstruse · mysterious · inscrutable · occultation · initiate
Divination card set
- alchemyMystical metal transformation
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- amuletWorn protective token
talisman · incantation · astrology · numerology · grimoire · ceremonial · invocation · theosophical
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- interpretationAssigned meaning
midrash · sod · treatise · manuscript · codex · dialectic · discourse · scholasticism
rabbinic
Of Jewish religious scholars
arcane
Understood by few
hermetic · recondite · cryptic · concealed · abstruse · mysterious · inscrutable · occultation · initiate · adept
tarot
Divination card set
- alchemyMystical metal transformation
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
amulet · talisman · incantation · astrology · numerology · grimoire · ceremonial · invocation · theosophical · magic
hod
Pole-mounted material trough
exegesis
Critical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- philologyStudy of historical texts
interpretation · midrash · sod · treatise · manuscript · codex · dialectic · discourse · scholasticism · academies
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- spiritual seekersseeker, seekers, pilgrim, pilgrims, aspirants
- Jewish Rolescantor, rebbe, shamash, shammes, rosh yeshiva
- magic userswizard, sorcerer, mage, witch, enchanter
- holy peoplesaint, saints, prophet, holy men, martyr
- Rabbinicsrabbi, rebbe, dayan, rosh yeshiva, Torah scholar
kabbalistrationalist
One guided by reason
scholastic · literalist · Aristotelian · legalist · exegete
kabbalistmaterialist
Values physical over spiritual
skeptic · empiricist · secularist · atheist · positivist