Spock's "Live long and Prosper" gesture is taken directly from Jewish priestly traditions and often can be seen on Jewish headstones and Kabbalist texts.
A 13th-century manuscript by Rabbi Eleazer of Worms, an early German Kabbalist, gives detailed instructions for how to create a golem; by the end of that century, summoning golems was a common part of Kabbalistic practice.
Rabbi Ronny Hacohen, a kabbalist from Gan Yavne, said already half a year ago that Donald Trump was going to win the American election, according to a report last Friday by Yisrael Hayom reporter Yehuda Schlesinger.
In fact, if Schulz was primarily a literary Kabbalist--that is to say, someone who was more interested in the literary than in the religious aspect of the Word per se--as I have argued in "Bruno Schulz: Literary Kabbalist of the Holocaust" (2002)--so indeed was Borges, as Edna Aizenberg has pointed out in Borges: el tejedor del Aleph y otros ensayos (1997).
Situating "On Language" beside a kabbalist text facilitates a fundamental realization about Benjamin, which Eiland and Jennings echo: whether it is the allegory, childhood, or theology, Benjamin is preoccupied by the hidden form of communication within each subject.
She is being courted by two utterly different men: Simon Appel, a descendent of the kabbalist Isaac Luria who covers Vatican affairs for the New York Times, and Armando Pierleoni, the heir to an ancient Italian aristocratic family with strong ties to the Vatican.
Borges concludes his section of El libro de los seres imaginarios on the Golem with a second variation of the myth, explaining that Eleazar de Worms, a Kabbalist who promoted the concept of mystical feats that could be accomplished through the letters of the alphabet, had conserved the formula for creating a Golem.
The absolute text: flawed creation and flawed semiotic systems in Borges's "El Golem"
It is not a religion, you can be a practising Christian, and a Kabbalist.
Maimonides, the great twelfth century rationalist literally worshipped a different God than Nahmanides, the pivotal thirteenth century kabbalist, yet no one today would doubt the Jewishness of both, or question the seminal importance of each in the development of authentic Jewisl thought.
A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a Mekubal ("sage").
Rabbi Ykov Abu Hasira is the grandfather of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, or the Baba Sali, the noted kabbalist who died in 1984 and whose own grave in Netivot, Israel, is also revered by Jews.
The Kabbalist" is a novel set around the turn of the twentieth century, as a Kabbalist seer sees horrible things lying in the distance for the world, consumed by world.