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On Kabbalah and its customs

שו”תCategory: HalachaOn Kabbalah and its customs
asked 8 years ago

The rabbi wrote in his reply that he sometimes accepts Kabbalistic principles, but in his opinion there is no need to fear Kabbalistic customs that have not been incorporated into the halakha. My question is: A. Is it possible to object to a Kabbalistic principle that the rabbi does accept and sees as correct and true? on. Do principles that the rabbi accepts also apply to customs that are related to this principle and that the rabbi practices? Can I please also look for such a custom, if there is one? third. Is the rabbi obligated to customs that stem from principles that he does not accept and that have entered into halakhic law (following a ruling that he apparently accepted them…) and if the rabbi does practice them, is it from the Torah a custom and then, ostensibly, can it be permitted as a custom?
Thank you in advance for your valuable time.


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
This is not a question of right and wrong, because I have no way of judging it. But from a custom standpoint, it has a certain validity, no less than any other custom. Customs that have been introduced are various formulas in prayer (the Ari’s version), bed directions, and the like. There are laws in the Shulchan Arutz Sheva that are based on the Zohar and the writings of the Kabbalists. I do not think that it has no validity, but that it has the validity of a custom at most. And if it contradicts the halacha, it is null and void. As is well known, the Maga is in the Talmud on Tefillin.

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