Kabbalah

Hebrew 'that which is received' — first any received tradition, then from the 13th century the name of Jewish mysticism, which Renaissance Christian scholars carried into Latin and the rest of Europe, where it slid into Italian lottery tips and Spanish guesswork. In Israel it also means a receipt.

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300 CEMishnaic Hebrew

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