Tag: Kabbalahs

The Zohar is a central work in the field of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah. Kabbalah is, in essence, a distillation of the spiritual principles at the heart of the Torah, the first five books of what Christians call the Old Testament. This contains the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuter...

Kabbalah, a Hebrew word that means “receiving” or “tradition,” is believed to have originated in the late 12th and early 13th centuries in Provence, France, and later developed in the town of Gerona in Catalonia, Spain. It gained prominence through the works of influential Ka...