Walter Benjamin a Jewish Mystic?

Has the Kabballah, or book of Jewish mysticism influenced Walter Benjamin's philosophy? During his life, one of Benjamin's closes friend by the name of Gershom Scholem, was an avid Jewish mystic who researched the Kabballah, and obviously, through his relationship with Scholem, Benjamin himself could also be a possible mystic or at least an academic scholar of this form of mysticism. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism, and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was a novel contribution to western philosophy, Marxism and the aesthetic philosophy. Influenced by Bachofen, Benjamin gave the name "auratic perception" to the aesthetic faculty through which civilization would recover a lost appreciation of myth. This is in relation to his work: "The work of Art in the age of mechanical reproduction". Did Jewish mysticism have an impact on the views of Benjamin and attributed to his theories of aesthetics and idealism?

Obviously this would be a good research paper topic, and further research is needed in order to address this issue.

source: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Walter_Benjamin