Tag: Zohars

Few texts in the history of Jewish thought are as complex, perplexing, and extraordinarily beautiful as Sefer Ha’Zohar — the Book of Radiance. Composed, or perhaps revealed, in the Kingdom of Castile sometime in the late thirteenth century, the Zohar is as confounding as it is ...

In the beginning, God feared shame, and woe to Samael when the Holy One, blessed be He, will come to redeem the Shekhinah and Israel from this woe. He will demand from him and from the seventy nations and their appointees who tormented Israel in exile. Because before Israel went into exile, the Holy...

The Sefer Zohar, often known simply as the Zohar, is a foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. Its influence on the conceptualization of God in Jewish mysticism and beyond is profound and multifaceted. To understand the impact of the Zohar, it is essen...