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The Kabbalah Society is a London-based organisation that was founded in the early 1970s to promote what is known as the Toledano Tradition of Kabbalah, initially researched and first taught by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi. Currently, it is also taught by a number of tutors worldwide to their respective Kabbalah groups.
While the 16 books written by Halevi form the contemporary basis of the Toledano Tradition, tutors also pursue their own interests, introducing compatible elements of those into their Group teachings.
Papers given over the years at conferences organised by the Kabbalah Society, of which Halevi was the founder member, remain unpublished, though various tutors and students of the Toledano Tradition have produced books. A number of free articles can be viewed on the website of the Kabbalah Society. Among them, written by various members of the Society, are papers on "The Vision of Ibn Gabriol – The poet-philosopher’s poem ‘Love,'" "The Work of Unification and Devekut in the Writings of Moshe Chaim Luzatto," "The Three Cultures of Spain," "Kabbalah, Time and Evolution" and an "Introduction to Kabbalah" by Halevi.
As well as emphasising the ecumenism that prevailed during Spain's Golden Age, a further aim of the Society is to promote, in modern form, the ideas of those kabbalists of the 10th-12th centuries living and working in Spain and Provence, among them, Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona and Nachmanides:
"This line of Kabbalah follows the Toledano Tradition dating back to medieval Spain where the three branches of the Abrahamic revelation met in a civilised cosmopolitan atmosphere, not unlike our own epoch. Here the Kabbalah brought together an esoteric fusion of religion and philosophy. In our time we relate its ancient theories and practices to contemporary psychology, science, and art."
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