ZOHAR. Sefer ha-zohar (The book of splendor) is the central book in the literature of Jewish mysticism (Qabbalah). It is attributed to Shimʿon bar Yoḥʾai, a second century tanna, but modern scholarship has concluded that it is a...

(Hebrew: “The book of Splendor, Radiance, Enlightenment”) Medieval Qabbalistic book of immense proportions and commensurate influence, completed by the fourteenth century in Spain; a mystical commentary on biblical passages; stories of the...

(Hebrew. ‘Splendour’) A *Kabbalistic work. The Zohar is a collection of several works supposedly dating back to the 2nd Century. It contains a mystical commentary on the *Pentateuch and on much of the *Hagiographa. It was probably composed...

The Zohar (Hebrew: זהר "Splendor, radiance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew. It contains...

Mystic Tales from the Zohar. By ARYEH WINEMAN, with Papercut Art by DIANE PALLEY. Philadelphia/Jerusalem:Jewish Publication Society, 1997. Reviewed by SCHNEIR LEVIN Many years ago, when I first looked into an English translation (by Sperling and Simon) of the thirteenth-century Aramaic Zohar,...

Zohar, Daniela "Chris" Sunday, April 18, 2004 Zohar, Daniela "Chris" Died peacefully at home on April 14, 2004. She was the devoted wife of the late Michael Zohar. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Slovenian immigrants, John and Apolonia Zupan on February 29, 1920. She...

On most days, a tumor on Zvulun Muola's spinal cord keeps him confined to a wheelchair, but today he is standing on a small, wooden dinghy gliding downstream, navigating between the islands of a tropical paradise.Muola, whose legs are partially paralyzed, is among a handful...

Israeli authorities said Tuesday they were opening a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's role in the sale of one of Israel's largest banks, the latest setback for the increasingly unpopular leader.Olmert's public standing has plummeted after last summer's inconclusive war in Lebanon and...