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The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר , Zōhar, lit."Splendor" or "Radiance" [a]) is a foundational work of Kabbalistic literature. [1] It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology.
'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.
Moses de León (c. 1240 – 1305), known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov (משה בן שם-טוב די-ליאון ), was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who first publicized the Zohar. Modern scholars believe the Zohar is his own work, despite his claim to have copied it out of an ancient manuscript by Shimon ben Yochai.
Yaakov Emden (1697–1776), himself an Orthodox Kabbalist who venerated the Zohar, [75] concerned to battle Sabbatean misuse of Kabbalah, wrote the Mitpaḥath Sfarim (Veil of the Books), an astute critique of the Zohar in which he concludes that certain parts of the Zohar contain heretical teaching and therefore could not have been written by ...
This is alluded in the Zohar book 1 :19a-b, 23a-b, 27a-b respectively. When Lilith and Naamah (another aspect of Lilith) were with Adam in his 130-year separation from Eve after the fall, they had daughters born from their union. These were the nashiym, the liliyot(F), the liloth spirits who were the ones who seduced the Watchers. These ...
Tekunei Zohar (Tel Aviv 1948), a kabbalistic work attributed to Shimon ben Yohai, with extensive notes by Margolies; Sefer HaBahir (Jerusalem 1951), a kabbalistic work attributed to Nehunya ben HaKaneh with extensive notes by Margolies; Zohar Hadash (Jerusalem 1953), a collection of statements from the Zohar, arranged according to the weekly ...
Michael Bar-Zohar (Hebrew: מיכאל בר-זהר; born 30 January 1938) is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. [1] He was a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment and Labor Party in the 1980s and early '90s.
Upper Zohar (Hebrew: זהר עילית), also Rogem Zohar, is an archaeological site on the outskirts of the Israeli town of Arad. It is believed to be the site of a Byzantine-era fort and part of a Roman line of defense against desert raiders. More recent research has suggested it was constructed for economic rather than military reasons. [1]