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• 3 reasons why Kabbalah is called “the hidden science.”
  
  1. Purposeful concealment of the science by Kabbalists themselves.
  2. Kabbalists wrote all their texts in a special language: “the language of branches.”
  3. Kabbalah studies what is hidden from our inborn perception. 

• The 11 most popular misrepresentations of Kabbalah, and why Kabbalah is not any of these:
  
  • Jewish Mysticism
  • Religion
  • Mysticism
  • Magic
  • That you have to be Jewish to study Kabbalah
  • That you have to had mastered preliminary wisdom before studying Kabbalah
  • Holy water
  • Amulets
  • Red strings
  • A means for protection
  • The same as Eastern teachings

• The only requirement for studying Kabbalah is a sincere desire to discover the meaning of life.
  
  
• Kabbalah studies how our life and our world has been created, and how to achieve connection with our life’s source, the totality of reality.

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