| In spite of the fervor which kabbalistic studies had engendered, they had never reached beyond the circles of initiates. |
| Imbued with the quasi-monistic tendency of much kabbalistic and hasidic teaching, Kook understands Teshuvah as the drive of all existence to return to its source in the One. |
| In this book he offers an innocent interpretation of his own kabbalistic amulets, deciphered by his opponents as heretical. |
| Towards 1200 a fully developed kabbalistic system is to be found almost everywhere. |
| Among these kabbalistic treatises inspired by the Zohar, the commentary on the Pentateuch by Menahem of Recanati, the first representative of the new movement in Italy, must be mentioned. |
| After this digression, let us now return to the historic development of the kabbalistic movement. |
