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Kabbalah is interesting, but very complex, possibly one of the most mixed up of all modern mysticisms because of the dark history of religion in europe. (lot's of religious persecutions in europe, arguably more so than in most other parts of the world.)
You have dozens of strains of "jewish" kabbalah, and dozens to hundreds of strains of non-jewish kabbalah. All the whacked out christian mystics of europe gobbled up kabbalah as a 'secret teaching', stripped out some of the purely jewish religious trtaditions, and turning it into a hybrid of mystical imagery and meditations.
So, lots of books you might find on kabbalah are very different from what the modern jewish tradition thinks of as kabbalah.
And the stuff that madonna is into- well, that's an example of one of the many strains of the jewish tradition, with it's own particular flavor. And most of the traditional Rabbis think of that as a dangerous subcult, a personality cult.
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