Jewish beliefs about the afterlife

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Frelga
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I find Kabbalah fascinating, although I don't know much.

Impish, I never knew that. But then, for Chassidim the personality of their Rabbis has always be of great importance - an unusual view in Judaism, IMO.
"Aargragaah. It mean lit’rally der time when you see dem little pebbles and you jus’ know dere’s gonna be a great big landslide on toppa you and it already too late to run. Dat moment, dat’s aagragaah.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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This recent Kabbalah craze is kinda cultish, IMO, though perhaps I shouldn't give voice to it in this forum.

But taking a small splinter from the Jewish mystical tradition and, viola! creating a fully fledged 'religion' out of it, with little red threads around the wrist and all...it's not kosher. It's all ethereal without any tachlis.
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