judaism is hindu; kabala is hindu

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>pseudepigraphic work which pretends to be a revelation from God communicated through R. Simeon ben Yoḥai

> the country in which the work originated it is necessary to ascertain where and when the Jews became intimately acquainted with the Hindu philosophy, which more than any other exercised an influence on the Zohar

>only to the Hindus...Aryabhatta in the first century before the common era... the Vedanta school of the Hindu philosophers ... so many admirers as in Persia in the eighth century. Under its influence the Mohammedans of Persia founded many mystic sects(Sufis). This hindu mystic movement did influence upon the Persian Jews, various sects('Isawites, the Yudghanites, etc.,) based on Vedanta philosophy. Thus the Yudghanites abstained from meat, led ascetic lives, set aside the literal meaning of the Torah for a supposed mystic interpretation, and believed in metempsychosis, etc. All these sects had their sacred writings, which they kept secret; and these writings formed the Zohar, which is a mystic commentary on the Pentateuch, as the upanishads are the mystic interpretation of the Vedas and other Brahmanic scriptures. In its peregrinations from Persia to Spain the Zohar probably received many additions and interpolations, among which may have been the various names of the Tannaim and Amoraim, as well as the allusions to historical events.

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