Maria Endel, Menachem Yaglom, Esther Yaglom, Galina Zelenina Kabbalah in the Twenty-First Century: Departure from Judaism? Maria Endel - Independent Researcher (Moscow, Russia). Menachem Yaglom - Independent Researcher (Jerusalem, Israel). Esther Yaglom - Independent Researcher (Jerusalem, Israel). Galina Zelenina - Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia). galinazelenina@gmail.com Conversation with Russian-language scholars of Kabbalah from Moscow and Jerusalem is devoted to the history of Kabbalistic thought on the territory of Russian empire, to the peculiarities of Eastern European Hasidic mysticism and Kabbalistic aspects of contemporary Hasidism (in Russia as well as abroad) and to the reception of Kabbalah in Russian culture. Counterpoint of these topics is phenomenology and sociology of "scientific Kabbalah" by Michael Laitman - Russian-language version of a much broader phenomenon of New Age Kabbalah and attempts to practice Kabbalah outside of Jewish tradition and Judaism. This is a very widespread trend, which exists simultaneously with traditional forms of Kabbalistic studies - in religious institutions, universities and home study groups. Keywords: Kabbalah, mysticism, Yehudah Ashlag, Baruch Ashlag, Michael Laitman, Sephirot, Moshe Idel, Yehuda Liebes, Zohar, Philip S. Berg, Hasidism, (Free)masons. BELOW is a conversation conducted by Galina Zelenina, which was attended by Maria Endel (Moscow), a researcher of Jewish mysticism and its reception in the Russian Academy of Sciences.- Zelenina G., Endel M., Yaglom M. Kabbalah in the XXI century: Coming out of Judaism? // State, religion, and Church in Russia and abroad. 2015. N 3 (33). pp. 170-191. Zelenina, Galina, Endel, Maria, Yaglom, Menachem and Yaglom, Esther (2015) "Kabbalah in the Twenty-First Century: Departure from Judaism?", Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom 33(3): 170 - 191. page 170Sonstve, as well as Menachem Yagl ... Read more