"Kabbalah needs more than a smattering of knowledge"

“Personally, I am not for this new Kabbalah trend.

I think it is cheap and I think it presents a danger.

Not that people are learning too much Kabbalah, but that they are focusing only on the mystery and secret and magic and don’t address how people should change or become more Jewish.

Kabbalah is not a gimmick.

It is something holy and serious and it needs much more than a smattering of knowledge.

Imagine taking a six-week course in neurosurgery and hanging up a shingle.

It is not only fraudulent, but dangerous.”

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

From Pebbles of Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz