Anonymous ID: 4aef44 Feb. 1, 2019, 11:46 a.m. No.4991153   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Cabal entered the English language in the late 16th century to mean a secret intrigue, plot or conspiracy. This coinage coincided with the rising awareness of Jewish mystical teachings, the Kabbalah, in non-Jewish circles. (The word Kabbalah derives from the word meaning "receive," denoting the private, oral nature of its transmission from teacher to student.)

 

The Renaissance scholar Johannes Reuchlin had attempted to mine kabbalistic sources for proofs of the truth of Christianity. Even if most people didn't understand the details of Kabbalah, they knew it was something esoteric and secret, hence the word cabal.