Don’t blame Arizal for Hussein Obama.
As for kabbalah, there is “kabbalah” and there is the modern misuse of kabbalah. If your exposure is that it is occultic or somehow related to Madonna, then you really don’t know much about it.
“Kabbalah” simply means “received.” Anyone who thinks the Bible is a sacred book, accepts that it is “received revelation.”
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