Q&A: Worlds and Providence in Kabbalah
Worlds and Providence in Kabbalah
Question
Hello,
You argued in the trilogy and on the site that you generally believe in Kabbalah.
Do you believe in the ten sefirot? Seemingly these are the ways God conducts the world..
Kabbalah deals a lot with spiritual worlds. In your opinion, is it possible to speak of proof for the existence of these worlds?
Thank you in advance
Answer
I don’t see how this could be proven. I also don’t know whether there are or are not spiritual worlds. But I think the kabbalists have spiritual intuitions that contain something real.
Discussion on Answer
And thanks for the answer
We still haven’t seen any device or app written in the language of Kabbalah that actually works in reality—that same reality through which God supposedly runs the world. It’s just charlatanism, like most wisdom traditions.
What I wrote applies to the sefirot too. How are they different from the other concepts of Kabbalah?
I asked about the sefirot because, according to a common interpretation, the sefirot are presented as the ways God watches over the world, and you, as is well known, do not believe in providence…
He does not watch over the world, but rather operates it—that is, creates laws that govern it. Those laws are expressions of the ten sefirot.
And what about the sefirot?