Kaballah is the mystic version of Judaism, its official textbooks are the Zohar.
Judaism stated with the torah/old testament (the written teachings), but that only lasted for a short period for the jews. They quickly shifted to the (oral teachings), the Talmud! Which is basically a load of rubbish the jewish rabbis continually wrote up to 600 years after Christ. (They stopped writing it when they realized if they continue, they will need 2 donkeys to transport the Talmud instead of 1, being jews, they decided to stop and save money)
The Talmud is mostly about ludicrous rules on how to live (like kosher and non kosher, how all non jews are animals, how god makes mistakes but the rabbis don't, derogatory words for Christianity and Jesus etc..)
The jews went along with the Talmud and still go with it, but at some point, certain jewish groups figured, the chosen people are not just chosen, they are gods! So they found the philosophy to go along with it, they will say the Zohar is old, but I reckon it goes back only to the 13th century (I need to look into this point). Of course it may contain ancient Babylonian teachings which always made up a part of judaism.
But more or less what I know about the Zohar is that it's the sort of view, that doing evil is not really evil, because good needs evil, and evil needs good, so they just do evil and they think it's ok. Also Sabbatai Zevi was a big figure in that mystic movement later on which allows all sort of evils and goes as far as allowing incest and most likely human sacrifices. (Human sacrifices are an integeral part of judaism (the so called "blood libel", isn't libel at all and is a crime committed by rabbis to obtain blood for their Purim cakes)
As pby1000 mentioned: Christopher Jon Bjerkness should be great source in this.
Kaballah is the mystic version of Judaism, its official textbooks are the Zohar.
Judaism stated with the torah/old testament (the written teachings), but that only lasted for a short period for the jews. They quickly shifted to the (oral teachings), the Talmud! Which is basically a load of rubbish the jewish rabbis continually wrote up to 600 years after Christ. (They stopped writing it when they realized if they continue, they will need 2 donkeys to transport the Talmud instead of 1, being jews, they decided to stop and save money)
The Talmud is mostly about ludicrous rules on how to live (like kosher and non kosher, how all non jews are animals, how god makes mistakes but the rabbis don't, derogatory words for Christianity and Jesus etc..)
The jews went along with the Talmud and still go with it, but at some point, certain jewish groups figured, the chosen people are not just chosen, they are gods! So they found the philosophy to go along with it, they will say the Zohar is old, but I reckon it goes back only to the 13th century (I need to look into this point). Of course it may contain ancient Babylonian teachings which always made up a part of judaism.
But more or less what I know about the Zohar is that it's the sort of view, that doing evil is not really evil, because good needs evil, and evil needs good, so they just do evil and they think it's ok. Also Sabbatai Zevi was a big figure in that mystic movement later on which allows all sort of evils and goes as far as allowing incest and most likely human sacrifices. (Human sacrifices are an integeral part of judaism (the so called "blood libel", isn't libel at all and is a crime committed by rabbis to obtain blood for their Purim cakes)
As pby1000 mentioned: Christopher Jon Bjerkness should be great source in this.