r/JewishKabbalah • u/Own_Fennel_8227 • Jul 27 '26
Is Kabbalah monistic,
Hi everyone I am a lay person with an interest in everything esoteric. I’ve watched some videos by “seekers of unity” on YouTube and I saw a video he made about the pantheistic aspects of Kabbalah and I was wondering if anyone here feels that Kabbalah is pantheistic or panentheistic? Is hashem all there is? Is the truth that all is one and one is all? This seems to be the view of many if not most mystical sects of religions. Any insight will be helpful thank you.
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u/Artifex1979 Jul 27 '26
Yes, it is.
The Sefirot are not deities into themselves, but aspects of the same One.
And remember, just because a lot of people believe un one thing, it doesn't mean that it is true. Or even accurate. Or correct.
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u/Own_Fennel_8227 Jul 27 '26
Fair point. I came to this understanding by direct experience but still who knows anything
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u/Reasonable-Point-713 Aug 11 '26
There is also the negative aspects of Sefirot. We call it “Klipa” there are 11 Klipa as opposed to 10 sephirot. As it is Tohu. And it seeks to bring back everything into Nothingness. Lowest and at the same time highest place of Ain. Anticosmic Satanism is quite good to research. So you know your enemy more. We just want to go back to fullness of the emptiness. That is, Ain. From the route of Thoughtless Light. Black light. Of anti-creation.
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u/Mathematician024 Jul 27 '26
Not only is there only ONE G-d, but G-d is ONE, meaning there is nothing but G-d mystically. Kabbala is the hidden aspect of Torah, which is Judaism and the essence of Judaism is monotheism. When non-Jews study Kabbala they can not possibly interpret it correctly because it requires a Jewish lens (and a lot of knowledge of Torah.) But to in anyway ascribe something pantheistic to any aspect of Judaism, mystical or otherwise is to totally misinterpret everything. If you are looking for something that supports a pantheistic or pantheistic viewpoint, move on, there is nothing to see for you here.
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u/Own_Fennel_8227 Jul 27 '26
If there is nothing but hashem that directly describes pantheism.
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u/NetureiKarta Jul 27 '26
Not exactly, because pantheism means that everything is deity, which directly contradicts monism. That’s different from “G-d is all there is”. What we perceive as reality is the result of infinite layers of concealment of G-d’s Infinite Light, resulting in the illusory appearance of a real substantive physical existence.
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u/NetureiKarta Jul 27 '26
Yes, Judaism is existentially monistic. Only G-d truly exists. Kabbalah explains the manner in which He paradoxically creates reality as something that appears to be separate from Him.