The Kabbalah Centre (www.Kabbalah.com) is a spiritual and educational organization.  Our goal is to make this ancient wisdom accessible and understandable to whoever wishes to learn.

Until the 2nd century, Kabalistic wisdom was restricted solely to one-on-one student-teacher relationships.  Even the Sacred Zohar – the foundational 2nd century kabablistic text – was written with an eye to protecting its wisdom from all but those few capable of reading Aramaic and piercing through the esoteric symbolism of its commentary.

In other words, Kabalistic wisdom was deemed too powerful for all but the elite.  It simply wasn’t taught outside the tradition.  Since its founding in 1922, the Kabbalah Centre has worked to shatter these prohibitions by:

Teaching all who wanted to learn – not just elite middle-aged Jewish men

Translating The Zohar first into modern Hebrew and then into English

Providing commentary and teaching in easier to grasp, every day language

Fostering a practical (vs. academic) understanding of Kabbalah

Continuing the tradition of intimate, one-on-one passing down of knowledge

Though founded in 1922 by Rav Yehuda Ashlag, and continued by his student Rav Yehuda Brandwein, our lineage can be traced to Rav Isaac Luria (The Ari) in the 16th century, and further back to Rav Shimon Bar Yochai, who created the source of kabbalistic wisdom, the Zohar, over two thousand years ago.

Today, the Centre is directed by Kabbalists Rav and Karen Berg, and their two sons Yehuda and Michael.  Together, they have maintained the ancient tradition of passing on the wisdom within a student-teacher relationship, and in the process have sparked a renaissance in kabbalistic study.

Biographies:
Rav Berg
Karen Berg
Yehuda Berg
Michael Berg

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