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human
It's mysticism + Jewish neuroticism. 

There's essentially a concept in Jewish rabbinic debate that if you can make your argument more complex your opponent will have trouble keeping up and you'll win. I'm not joking. This idea is a central crux of Judaism and explains a ridiculous amount about the Jews as a people. Kabbalah is basically a bunch of Rabbi's deliberately making Judaism increasingly complex so they could win arguments against each other. That's where you get stuff like there being over a hundred different named angels. 

The idea is if a Rabbi sets forth an argument that uses like 50 different named angels, someone can't even realistically debate them unless they hit the books and memorize the names of all 50 of those angels being invoked. If that person doesn't, the Rabbi could just quiz them and if there's one angel they can't remember the name of the Rabbi will just be like 'wow you obviously don't know what you're talking about, and you're trying to debate me? sit down'.

Over hundreds of years this has been taken to absolutely retarded levels. That's why when people look at Kabbalah today it looks like total schizoid shit. They don't understand that it started with no named angels then one Rabbi added 5 then another added 10 then another Rabbi entirely added 20 more. Kabbalah is basically the final end game form of Judaism. Even just regular everyday Jews studying for their bar mitzvah have to do a ridiculous amount of rote memorization. Imagine what happens when those Jews, grow up, become Rabbi's and then literally spend the rest of their lives debating each other and making their arguments increasingly complex and difficult to follow.

That's Kabbalah. There's also obviously a lot of really genuinely cool and interesting aspects to it. These Rabbi's are ultimately trying to explore and develop new ideas within the framework of Judaism. But yeah it's obscenely convoluted and obtuse on purpose. It's a feature not a bug.
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human
hes a glownig but hes right and u know that...