Though formal "Kabbalah" emerged in the Middle Ages, its seeds were planted much earlier:
Dating back to the 1st millennium, these early practitioners focused on visionary journeys to the divine "palaces" or the "Chariot" of God described by the prophet Ezekiel [16, 31]. Origins of the Kabbalah
Known as the father of contemporary Kabbalah, he introduced concepts like Tzimtzum (God's self-contraction to make space for the world) and Tikkun Olam (repairing the world by gathering "divine sparks") [5.8, 26]. Though formal "Kabbalah" emerged in the Middle Ages,
