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Also Known As Cabbalah • Cabala • Cabbala • Kabala • Kabbalah

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Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
Moses De León
Spanish Kabbalist
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Joseph Gikatilla
Spanish Kabbalist
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
Jewish mystic
False messiah: Shabbetai Tzevi
Shabbetai Tzevi
Jewish pseudo-messiah
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, count di Concordia
Italian scholar
Jonathan Eybeschütz
Polish rabbi and scholar
Naḥmanides
Spanish scholar and rabbi
Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto
Italian-Jewish writer
Elijah Delmedigo
philosopher
Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar