Beliefs of Kabbalism

What is the primary goal of Kabbalists in their spiritual journey?

• To perform rituals that are meaningless but nonetheless fun to do

• To become very close to God by understanding the hidden processes of the divine

• To convert others to their beliefs because this is the way to divinity

• To study the laws of nature as they apply to all living organisms separate from any divinity

Which set of writings is considered the foundation of Kabbalah?

• The Bible

• The Zohar

• The Talmud

• The Quran

How do Kabbalists believe God and creation are related?

• They are completely separate

• They are indifferent to each other

• They are in conflict

• They are connected

What do Kabbalists use to deepen their understanding of God?

• Ancient rituals only, especially ones that are not easily remembered or performed

• Mathematics and science as they are the true expression of the universal deity

• Special texts, their own experiences, and understanding of the world

• Public debates in which two opposing views of God and creation are presented and then argued over

What theme is explored in the memoir Night regarding Elie's struggle?

• Elie's struggle with political ideologies, especially those of communism and socialism

• Elie's struggle with financial hardship because he loses all his money and it is expensive to be a Kabbalist

• Elie's struggle in keeping his Kabbalistic faith during the horrors of the Holocaust

• Elie's struggle with personal identity because he does not know who he really is or why he is.

Kabbalists believe they are getting to know

• the deep things of God

• the mysteries of suffering

• the cost of true knowledge

• the way much like in the Mandalorian

Kabbalists believe that

• God cannot be discovered in this life or the next

• God does things in ways that are hard to understand

• God is unknowable except in rare cases where a Kabbalist proves himself worthy

• God does not exist but the belief in Him persists as shown in the Zohar

Kabbalists believe there is

• no way to know God and he does not exist in a person's soul

• a strong sense of God in all religions and beliefs

• a hidden part of God in each person's soul

• a invisible barrier between man and God and that only Kabbalism can break it down

The Zohar talks about

• many things that philosophers have not thought about before

• the writings of Saint Kabbalah

• the New Testament in a mystical way

• the Torah in a mystical way

The Zohar was written in medieval

• Greek and Latin

• Aramaic and Hebrew

• Arabic

• German and English