Are Kabbalistic Meditations All about Ecstasy?

In order for us to understand this question better, we must first ascertain the different streams within Kabbalah itself. While tradition contends that Kabbalah was first transmitted to Moses on Mount Sinai, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of the modern academic study of Jewish mysticism, based on historical evidence, describes Kabbalah as a phenomenon that emerges around the twelfth-thirteenth centuries in Europe as it was only until this late period that we see the doctrine of the sefirot take shape and people start referring to themselves as “kabbalists,” i.e. those who have “received” esoteric teachings.