Q&A: Is Lurianic Kabbalah Idolatry?
Is Lurianic Kabbalah Idolatry?
Question
Are the partzufim in the Kabbalah of the Ari idolatry?
How are they different from the Christian Trinity?
Answer
What does one have to do with the other? The Trinity too is not necessarily idolatry. If you have a question, please formulate it.
Discussion on Answer
Being told something is not an objection. I’ve also been told many things. There is indeed a similarity between the kabbalistic statement of the Holy One, blessed be He, Israel, and the Torah, and the Trinity. There are different interpretations both here and there, and that is why I wrote that this is not necessarily idolatry. And as for what people say, ask whoever is saying it.
In my very humble opinion, Kabbalah runs contrary to the worship of God.
Moreover, the Book of the Zohar was not written by Rabbi Shimon, as everyone thinks. In Professor Ronit Meroz’s book Jubilee of the Zohar, she proves one by one that it was not Rabbi Shimon who wrote it, but that Moses de León wrote it. In general, throughout the Zohar there are things that contradict Maimonides’ approach in the Guide, the worship of God, associationism, and more..
Sorry, Rabbi, I apologize for not formulating it properly.
I don’t understand Kabbalah, but I was told that it contains many things that are similar to Christianity, like the statement for example, "Israel, the Torah, and the Holy One, blessed be He, are all one"—that’s a kind of trinity, isn’t it?
I also thought that the partzufim constituted a trinity, but apparently I was mistaken.
And if the Trinity is not idolatry,
then why do we define Christianity as such?