Is Cabala relevant to Jews today?
Impeccable Jewish sources say Cabala still holds tremendous appeal for Jews. The preface to the Soncino edition to the Zohar says, “The Zohar appeals to many Jews in a way that makes them regard it as the most sacred of sacred books! For it mirrors Judaism as an intensely vital religion of the spirit. More overpoweringly than any other book or code or even than the Bible, does it give to the Jew the conviction of an inner, unseen spiritual universe — an eternal moral order (p.12). During the present century, there has been a distinct revival of interest … in Kabbalah and eminent Jewish scholars have attempted to show that devotees of the mystic side of Jewish life and religion were not, as is popularly supposed, half-crazy visionaries living in a universe peopled by the figments of their own degenerate brains, but men of intellect, scholarship and sound sense who aimed at bringing back to Jewish organized communal life, a breath of that mystic sentiment and emotion which are the aro
