Editing Kabbalah Centre (section)

==History==
[[File:Kaballah-center.jpg|thumb|upright|Kabbalah Centre in New York City in 2008]]
The Kabbalah Centre was founded in the United States in July 1965 initially as a publishing house called "The National Institute for the Research in Kabbalah" by [[Philip Berg]] (born Feivel Gruberger) and Rabbi Levi Isaac Krakovsky. It is likely that Berg was encouraged by his ''[[Rebbe]]'' and former wife's uncle Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein to establish the publishing house to aid the funding of Brandwein's Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Brandwein was the dean of Yeshivah Kol Yehuda, his son Rabbi Abraham Brandwein succeeded him as the head of the Yeshivah. Kol Yehuda was founded in 1922 and continues to this day. The uniqueness of ''Kol Yehuda'' is that students focus on kabbalistic study. The students would receive a salary to cover their living expenses so they can devote themselves to full-time learning, however Brandwein faced difficulty in finding funds for the yeshiva and publishing. After Brandwein's death, and after several years in Israel, Philip Berg and his wife [[Karen Berg (writer)|Karen Berg]], re-established the independent U.S. Kabbalah Centre in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Myers | first1 = Jody Elizabeth | title = Kabbalah and the spiritual quest: the Kabbalah Centre in America | publisher = Praeger | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-275-98940-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/kabbalahspiritua0000myer }}</ref>

The Kabbalah Centre in [[Los Angeles]] was opened in 1984. After the death of Berg, Karen and Michael Berg acted as directors and spiritual teachers of the organization. The organization is a registered non-profit<ref name="irs1"/> with over fifty branches worldwide, including major ones in [[Los Angeles]], [[New York City]], [[London]] and [[Toronto]].
[[File:Kol Yehuda Yeshiva.jpg|thumb|"Kol Yehuda" Yeshiva of Rabbi Yehuda Tvi Brandwein in the [[Old City (Jerusalem)]]]]