Do Jews believe in mythical creatures?

Angels and demons are pretty mythical.

Ahh, so you have been googling Kabbalah. It's very interesting and also easy to get led astray.

There are some mythical creatures mentioned in Kabbalistic writtings. If you dig deeply you will find they are allegorical in much the same way Aesop's fables are. Most of these teachings are kept pretty well hidden and are available only in Hebew and Aramaic. Some of the dialects are quite difficult to translate.

You will find some of these in tractate Chagigah in the Talmud.

It would really help to know what you are reading and perhaps I can point you in the right direction. I will say that in order to find a teacher of Kabbalah, it's necessary to be a practicing Jew, and the teacher will almost certainly require you to learn Hebrew and Aramaic. There really is no teaching in the traditional sense as Kabbalah can't be taught, it can only be learned by a very diligent student.

The time period for the rulings on age have expired, but check with your Rabbi.

For starters, I'd recommend reading the Tanya. It's available for free in the www.chabad.org library. It will be hard to understand, but just press on through it. It will help you build vocabulary. Then I'd suggest reading the Chassidic Heritage Series. Both of these are in English.

Kabbalah is closely related to Chasssidut with the second being more understandable.

For translating, I'd suggest the Kedushat Levi. You can order that by calling 1-800-Eichlers. Order with the nekudot. This book is only available in Hebrew.

Feel free to email me at any time if you have questions. The books are only recommendations. One can actually start almost anyplace if they have the desire to learn.

I was under the impression that the Kabbalah was more of an esoteric path working system, one of many form many ancient cultures world wide. Is it not more mystic than mythic (I do belivie there aint no word as mythic so I am sorry)

No not really. There are a few obscure concepts that aren't used much, but they aren' part of Kabbalah, but you'd need to ask a Rabbi.

Kabbalah is much more of a way of finding levels of meaning in Torah to help bring more spirituality into yourself through experiential elements instead of simply reading.

If you do a search on here, or go through Mark S's answers, you should be alble to find past questions answered on this with good links.

There are no mythical creatures in Islam other than it's god. In arabic culture, there are winged horses, carnivorous unicorns n(Shadhavar), ghouls (ghuls), Djinn (different kinds, of which the Ifritti, fire Djinn, are a subset), and a few other creatures.

No. Absolutely not. Miracles do not equal mythical creatures. Mysticism, depending on your definition (but I doubt we have the same definition, since you mentioned mythical creatures), maybe.

The Jews that believe in mythical creatures believe in mythical creatures.

depends on your definition of mythical.

I most certainly definitely do :)