Why are we not permitted to modernize the language of Kabbalah?
The Kabbalists did not invent a language of their own. They feel the feelings of the spiritual world in a common way. They see what name they shall assign as a spiritual object to each feeling that they feel in spirituality. These words are not given to change. For example, in the creation of the world there exist twenty-two states. Like letters in our alphabet, their combinations give a spiritual feeling of an object in material form in our world. The description of the spiritual world, meaning the description of the human soul, is a description of its closeness to the Creator and as it feels Him in increasing quantities. To the same degree that the soul feels the Creator more fully, so is it closer to Him. Kabbalah divides the general soul into parts, gives an exact name to each part in relation to its states and describes its actions. This is the language of feelings yet it is exact. Kabbalah is an engineering of the soul. How can we apply such exacting research and descriptions to
