First off, let’s get the spelling out of the way and baseline the word. What does the word Kabbalah mean, and how should I spell it?
The word “Kabbalah” is derived from the root “to receive, to accept”. There are a bunch of spellings of the word, the most common – Kabbalah and Qabalah. Cabala, Qaballah, Qabala, Kaballah are also seen. The reason for this is that some letters in the Hebrew alphabet have more than one representation in the English alphabet, and the same Hebrew letter can be written either as K or Q.
