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Zohar and Related Booklets in various formats in PDF files, at ha-zohar.net; Sefer haZohar, Mantua edition (1558), at the National Library of Israel, DjVu file; Sefer haZohar, Cremona edition (1559), at the National Library of Israel, DjVu file; Zohar text files (TXT HTML) among grimoar.cz Hebrew Kabbalistic texts collection
Zohar (זהר) ("Splendor") – the most important text of Kabbalah, which among some Kabbalists has achieved canonical status as part of the Oral Torah. Although kabbalists attribute it to Simeon ben Yohai , it in fact dates to c. 1285 CE, and was at least largely composed by Moses de Leon .
'Repairs of the Zohar'), also known as the Tikunim (תקונים), is a main text of the Kabbalah that was composed in the 14th century. It is a separate appendix to the Zohar, a crucial 13th-century work of Kabbalah, consisting of seventy commentaries on the opening word of the Torah, In the beginning, in the Midrashic style.
In Judaism, Kabbalah is a form of Torah commentary that was especially prominent in the sixteenth century via the book the Zohar. It introduced the diminishing Four Worlds , God as the transcendent Ain Soph , Israel as embodying the Shekinah , or "presence", as children of the True God, and most famously the ten Sephiroth as schema of the ...
[2] While in Kabbalah there are clearly delineated levels of holiness, in Hasidism and Chabad philosophy these are grounded in the mundanities of people's inner lives. So in reality—according to the Chabad analogy— Chochma is the birth of an idea in the mind, Binah is the contemplation, and Da'at is the beginning of the actualisation of an ...
Historically, Kabbalah emerged from earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th- to 13th-century Spain and Southern France, [2] [3] and was reinterpreted during the Jewish mystical renaissance in 16th-century Ottoman Palestine. [2] The Zohar, the foundational text of Kabbalah, was authored in the late 13th century, likely by Moses de León.
This issue has been crystalized until today by alternative views on the origin of the Zohar, the main text of Kabbalah, attributed to the circle of its central protagonist Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the 2nd century CE, for opening up the study of Jewish Mysticism. [1]
Reshit Chochmah is an important book of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), ethics and morality (Musar literature), written by the 16th century scholar Rabbi Eliyahu de Vidas. It is based largely on the Zohar. Its name literally translates into “the beginning of Wisdom”, in allusion to the Biblical verse "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of ...