Kabbalist vs scholar

Kabbalist and scholar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Kabbalist	Yes	No	No	No
scholar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholar is a hypernym of Kabbalist; that is, scholar is a word with a broader meaning than Kabbalist:

Kabbalist: a student of the Jewish Kabbalah
scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

Other hypernyms of Kabbalist include bookman, scholarly person.

Kabbalist (noun)	scholar (noun)
a student of the Jewish Kabbalah	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
	a student who holds a scholarship