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(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 by Moses b. Shem Tov in the 13th Century and was enormously influential in kabbalistic circles. Many commentaries have been written on it.
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