SparkNotes: The Kabbalah: Quiz

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1. What does the word kabbalah mean in Hebrew?

(A) Receiving

(B) Confusing

(D) Believing

2. Where is Safed?

(A) In Macedonia

(B) By the Volga River

(D) Heaven

3. The Supernal Triad refers to:

(A) Three Planets

(B) The first three sefirot

(D) The third level of Torah knowledge

4. Which of the following items does the Kaballah Centre NOT offer?

(A) Special water imbued with mystical properties

(B) Special shoes that keep you grounded

(D) Special books that make you enlightened

5. What was Isaac Luria’s nickname?

(A) The Holy Tortoise

(B) The Holy Lion

(D) The Holy Olive Branch

6. What does tsimtsum mean?

(A) Withdrawal

(B) Revulsion

(D) Attraction

7. In what book do the sefirot first appear?

(A) Ma’aseh merkavah

(B) Sefer ha-Bahir

(D) Sefer Yetzirah

8. Which sefirot stands for Beauty?

(A) Shekhinah

(B) Binah

(D) Chochmah

9. Which biblical character is associated with Hod?

(A) Aaron

(B) Joseph

(D) Abraham

10. What is a dybbuk?

(A) A holy relic

(B) A holy book

(D) A spirit that possesses another human

11. Who did Nathan of Gaza follow?

(A) Moses de Leon

(B) Simeon ben Yohai

(D) Shabbetai Tzvi

12. What does Shekhinah mean?

(A) Becoming

(B) Kingdom

(D) Caravan

13. Which of the following is NOT a sefirah?

(A) Keter

(B) Tiferet

(D) Chaim

14. To what religion did Shabbetai Tzvi convert?

(A) Protestantism

(B) Islam

(D) Buddhism

15. When were the Jews expelled from Spain?

(A) 1360

(B) 1201

(D) 1492

16. Which of the following places was NOT a center of kabbalistic activity?

(A) Safed

(B) India

(D) France

17. What does Zohar mean?

(A) The Dance

(B) Bright

(D) Belonging

18. Ma’aseh merkavah refers to the study of what?

(A) The workings of creation

(B) The workings of the chariot

(D) The workings of the sefirot

19. With which sefirah must Shekhinah unite?

(A) Binah

(B) Chesed

(D) Tiferet

20. Who replaced Lilith?

(A) Binah

(B) Eve

(D) Siddhartha

21. What does Adam Kadmon mean?

(A) Primordial Adam

(B) Adam in exile

(D) Wise Adam

22. How long did Simeon ben Yohai live in the cave?

(A) One year

(B) Five years

(D) Twenty-two years

23. Who visited Simeon ben Yohai and his son while they were in the cave?

(A) God

(B) Moses

(D) Jesus

24. The Zohar was first written in which language?

(A) Aramaic

(B) Hebrew

(D) Arabic

25. One of the Zohar’s main parables involves a man who eats raw

(A) corn

(B) wheat

(D) barley