She had read portions of the Talmud, and remarked one day in conversation that Spinoza had really got something from the cabbala.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
A learned rabbi, widely celebrated for his profound knowledge of the cabbala, complained that he had dared to preach Christ to him.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
The correspondents to whom his letters were addressed were not persons specially interested in religion or chemistry or the cabbala, and, of all men, Goethe was least likely to be obsessed by any set of ideas to the exclusion of all others.
"The Youth of Goethe"
Peter Hume Brown