The potential for misuse and mental trauma led to restrictions on who could study Jewish mysticism.
Rabbi Shabbatai Hakohen, a 17th-century talmudist popularly known as the Shach, famously instituted a rule that one should not study Kabbalah until the age of 40 — the age at which, according to the Mishnah, wisdom is attained.
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