jews: Kabbalah involves jewish mysticism and texts so complex + specialized only jews well-versed in jewish scholarship to even begin to understand. Others shouldn’t study it.
gentiles in medieval europe: WHY R U KEEPING THIS SECRET?? MUST BE DEVIL WORSHIPPING MAGIC!!
gentiles a few centuries later: lets make a term called “cabal” for secret evil political groups based on the word kabbalah! cant trust those jews!
gentiles during the enlightenment: this kabbalah stuff sounds cool! what if we changed this shit up for christians to use? lets do some alchemy shit this is rad
gentiles today: *starts kabbalah ~religion~ as a celebrity trend* *appropriates kabbalah for ~occult~ cool points in the media and tarot* *profits off of books on faux kabbalah bs to the point jews have trouble finding legit sources on kabbalah*
jews: …