I edited the following question because I needed to fix tags anyway, but I'm not actually sure it's within our scope. Is this "too localized", or is it ok? I think we've had questions about kohein-related names (like Katz), so it's not obviously out of scope, but I wanted to ask for input:

@MonicaCellio can I speak with you privately for a few moments?

Or any moderator, though Monica will have more context for my issue.

@BabySeal pinged you elsewhere.

This question judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/34564/…

re posts an edit iteration of an answer that I spoke with you about and specifically deleted so that it would not be viewed on the site.

@BabySeal yes, I was wondering if I should delete that outright. Usually mods try not to act unilaterally, but... if it were to get a flag or two that would help.

@BabySeal btw you know we're still in the public chat room, right? I pinged you in a different one -- would you like to move there?

okay, thanks, will flag, that was all I needed. Have a Good Shabbos!

@BabySeal you too! I'm sorry this happened to you, and I'm trying to do right by everybody.

thanks, no worries.

I'd never heard of Christian Kabbalah before.

@TRiG huh. Presumably it's just borrowing the name and (their impression of) the high-level idea, like when Christians talk about doing PaRDeS (which is not really much like their "four-fold method" or whatever they call it).

@MonicaCellio To be fair I completely rewrote that question, and I'm not entirely sure I interpreted it correctly.

Since, to do kabbalah properly, you have to first be fluent in torah (tanakh? probably) and talmud, it's unlikely that a Christian would have the requisite background. (Many Jews don't either.) So it's kind of like taking graduate-level Calculus when you haven't mastered high-school algebra; either you'll be lost or, if you seem to understand, then the course has been dumbed down for you and it's not what you think.

@TRiG I wasn't really commenting on the question per se -- more the idea of what that phrase could mean.

@MonicaCellio Torah (and Tanakh) possibly, though probably not in the same way as Jews. Talmud, unlikely.

@TRiG they'd have to unlearn a lot of what they "know" about the Tanakh. The only Christians I've met who've studied any talmud (and then, not a lot) have been to seminary.

(See also the related question linked in comments.)

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