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Mystic Tales from the Zohar by with notes and commentary by Aryeh Wineman; papercut art by Diane Palley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mystic Tales from the Zohar about?

The Zohar (the word itself means “brilliant light”) is a Jewish medieval mystic text that appeared in late thirteenth-century Christian Spain. Written in an artificial Aramaic, masking a medieval Hebrew, it is a collection of mystical writings including a homiletical commentary on the Torah. The author wrote the Zohar as a pseudepigraphical work, claiming it to be the composition or statement of the teachings and revelations given to Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai, a second-century talmudic sage. For this reason, the Zohar is written in Aramaic, the language of the greater part of the Talmud. Largely as a result of Gershom Scholem’s monumental research on the subject, contemporary critical scholars virtually unanimously believe the major part of the Zohar to be the work of Moses ben Shem Tov of Leon.

Who reads Mystic Tales from the Zohar?

Author

with notes and commentary by Aryeh Wineman; papercut art by Diane Palley

Publisher

Jewish Publication Society

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590454688

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Judaism