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...

Classical text central to Kabbala that has influenced all mystical movements within Judaism. Many Kabbalists invest it with a sanctity normally accorded only to the Torah and the Talmud. Written mostly in Aramaic, it is believed to be mainly the work...

(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: ××"ר "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...