Sentence examples for cabalist from inspiring English sources
Gitta has been to a cabalist and a rabbi — useless both.
You needn't be a pipe organ cabalist or an initiate of the new-music illuminati to be moved, even shaken, by Olivier Messiaen's music for the instrument he played most of his life.
Journalists and writers, their blades whetted, accused Strauss, who had died in 1973, of being the secret cabalist or "master thinker" of the Iraq invasion, acting through the deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who had studied with Bloom.
In "Dreams of Being Eaten Alive," during a long riff on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," he describes Winfrey both as someone whose "great antecedents could be said to be Emerson and Whitman, who flirted with a distinctive American spirituality," and as a "creative cabalist".
But he sees in her the potential to be what he cannot be, namely a practitioner of the teachings of Abraham Abulafia, a 13th-century cabalist who taught that the key to transcendence is language itself.
The main text that Mr. Rosenberg uses is the Zohar -- meaning radiance -- which most scholars attribute to a 13th-century Spanish cabalist named Moses de Leon, but which de Leon presented as a long-lost manuscript composed a millennium earlier by the legendary rabbi Shimon ben Yohai.
Long ago the Cabalists, the Jewish mystics, particularly those who followed the teachings of Isaac Luria, conceived of the notion of tsimtsum, which means a sort of holding in of breath.
Dybbuk legends seem to have originated with the Cabalists, a group of medieval Jewish scholars who rejected rationalistic interpretations of Scripture and attempted to approach God through mysticism and magic.
He would have been better off reading the Cabalists.
In the struggle to comprehend a secular life that somehow and always includes the divine, these many commentators, like Luria and his fellow cabalists in the holy city of Safed, all seem to be "floating in their own prayer".
In "Faith in America," he exempted Americans who don't practice a religion from "freedom" and warned ominously of shadowy, unidentified cabalists "intent on establishing a new religion in America — the religion of secularism".
