Kabbalah Links

Journal des Etudes de la Cabale / Journal of Kabbalah Studies
- in French

Kabbalah

- excellent introduction and overview, although mainly from the Lurianic
and contemporary Jewish Renewal perspective

Kabbalah - Occultopedia entry - short but decent basic overview, includes a good bibliography for further reading.

Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Self-Mastery, with Laibl Wolf, Chabad Hassidic teacher and author of Practical Kabbalah. Even the preview alone is an excellent introduction to orthodox Kabbalah.

Kabbalah On-Line web site by
Rabbi Yossi Markel

Online Tanya lessons. - written Hebrew / English Tanya text with audio clips of Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasniaski's elaboration on the subject (English). One can listen and download the entire lesson (English) as audio clip.

True Kabbalah - Free Kabbalah seminars, online lessons, and discussion groups in the Chabad Chassidus tradition.

The Kabbalah Centre - Study of Kabbalah, Books, Tapes, Online Kabbalah Classes

What is kabbalah? - a new site that presents kabbalistic knowledge into contemporary language

Theogensis - Kabbalah - a short, easy to understand contemporary, introduction on the Lurianic cosmology; also incorporates the involution/evolution principle

Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism dedicated to Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah tradition. The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is designed as an internet version of an ongoing research seminar of the graduate students and scholars at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The site explores the influence of Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah mysticism on eastern othodox authors.

Lone
Star Kabbalah by Dr. C. Benton. An overview of all the main
Kabbalaistic themes.  Follows the Lurianic
paradigm.  Yes, you guessed it, this site comes from deep in the heart
of Texas  ;-)

The
Kabbalah Society - Toledano Tradition - home page of Z'ev
ben Shimon Halevi, the author of a  number of popular books on
Kabbalah.  Halevi is seeking to restore an early Sefardic/Spanish/Toledano
Kabbalistic tradition.  Toledo in Spain was a great cultural and spiritual
centre of the time.

Kabbalah and Chassidut - "A Gateway to the Wisdom of Kabbalah and Chassidut
offering a contemporary presentation of classical topics in Jewish Mystical
Thought as taken from the teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh" has some
excellent easy to follow material on Judaic Kabbalah - particularily Cordovero,

Luria and the Baal
Shem Tov.  See especially the sections Introductions
for Advanced Learners for concepts and Three
Stages in the Evolution of Kabbalistic Thought for the historical
development of these ideas.  Far more comprehensible then the Bnei
Baruch page

The Open Kabbalah Forum - An ecumenical forum for open discussion of kabbalah and other forms of hebrew mysticism...



you can also access it more quickly from here

"a new forum, most importantly one that is more open than the other
kabbalah forums (use and registration are both free and optional; any visitor may read and post.) and one
that is dedicated to ecumenical and respectful (the posters towards each other) discussion.



(admittedly, i am most interested in the hebrew and
more orthodox insights into the subject, however i
think to me it's quite obvious that at the core of
kabbalah is a never-ending interpretation, even by
anyone- a midrash that is balanced and filtered by the
traditional. however, anyone with a beginning or
advanced interest in what they deem "kabbalah" is
welcome.)"

Donmeh west: the Syncretic Neo-Sabbatian Kabbalah of Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain - continuation of the tradition of Sabbatai Zevi and his successors, incorporating comparative religion (particularly Vedanta) and Jungian spirituality, according to the teachings of Reb Yakov Leib HaKohain.

Colin's Hermetic Kabbalah Page - the definitive on-line Hermetic resource.  includes a number of fascinating on-line documents by Bill Heidrick and others.  These are worth printing out for study.  Also an amazing Links
page

The
Tree of Life - an interactive image map - excellent

The Templum Kabbalah - Hosts a number of useful and original resources, including a freely downloadable book of fourteen chapters on the Magicians Kabbalah, complete with exercises and rituals; the Order of Everlasting Day (OED) One-Year Kabbalah Course, which teaches the basic framework of Kabbalistic concepts applied to the Western Mystery Tradition, and the OED's on-line journal, Aletheia; and a lot of material for both beginners and serious students.

Quabbalah - The Tree of Life - by Karen Chapdelaine.  From a 1994 alt.magick newsgroup posting, this article gives a good very basic
intro.  Unfortunately the ascii diagram did not come out very well

Leaves from Liber Legis: The Cabalistic Writings of Frater Sinn and contains personal communications about the Tree of Life (from a Thelemic point-of-view) and Tarot (Thoth Tarot Deck). It is both in English and in Portuguese.

My
Qabalah - interactive image map, follows basically the Golden
Dawn /Hermetic/Dion Fortune/ tradition(s) - gives a good list of correspondences for and description of each Sefirah

Qabalah
Revealed - another good interactive image map of the Tree
of Life, together with a personal (but quite valid) interpretation of each Sefirah.