Reading Kabbalah as a System: A Unified Method Integrating Zohar and Lurianic Kabbalah
Kabbalah is commonly approached through symbolic interpretation and narrative exegesis. This book advances a different thesis: that Kabbalistic texts can be read as formal representations of structured processes.
Reading Kabbalah as a System develops a unified analytical method that integrates the allegorical language of the Zohar with the process-based framework of Lurianic Kabbalah. Within this framework, core concepts—such as Or (Light), Kli (Vessel), Masach (Screen), Hakaa (Interaction), and Or Hozer (Reflected Light)—are treated not as metaphors, but as functional elements within a coherent system.
The study establishes a methodological protocol for identifying structural relations, mapping process flows, and analyzing the internal dynamics of Kabbalistic texts. By doing so, it repositions these texts from objects of interpretive commentary to models of systemic description.
Intended for advanced readers, this work provides a rigorous framework for reading Kabbalah as a unified system governed by consistent principles, rather than as a collection of isolated teachings.