What is Kabbalah?

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References:
Boaz Huss, "All You Need Is LAV: Madonna and Postmodern Kabbalah," The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (Fall 2005).

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Gershom Scholem. “First Lecture: General Characteristics of Jewish Mysticism.” In "Major
Trends in Jewish Mysticism," 1-39. Jerusalem, Israel: Schocken Books, 1974.

Joseph Dan, "Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction," 2007.

Yaacob Dweck, "The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice."

Itzik Lodzer (Arthur Green), “Notes from the Jewish Underground: Psychedelics and Kabbalah,” 
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Steven T. Katz, Comparative Mysticism: an Anthology of Original Sources. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Harriet Ryan and Kim Christensen. “Celebrities Gave Kabbalah Centre Cachet, and Spurred Its Growth.” Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2011.

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