One of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought, the Zohar represents an attempt to uncover hidden meanings behind the world of appearan...
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Dec 13, 2010
Jeffrey
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No book in Judaism is subject to more misperception than The Zohar, the central text of Kabbalah,
Contrary to popular perception, The Zohar is not a coherent explanation of Kabbalistic thought.
Rather, The Zohar is simply a commentary on the Torah, albeit a mystical one.
Today, even your neighborhood Barnes and Nobles stocks several books with Kabbalistic themes. But for a peek at the real Zohar, it’s hard to beat scholar Gershom Scholem’s slender “Zohar: The Boo More...
Contrary to popular perception, The Zohar is not a coherent explanation of Kabbalistic thought.
Rather, The Zohar is simply a commentary on the Torah, albeit a mystical one.
Today, even your neighborhood Barnes and Nobles stocks several books with Kabbalistic themes. But for a peek at the real Zohar, it’s hard to beat scholar Gershom Scholem’s slender “Zohar: The Boo More...
Dec 28, 2009
Marcus
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I read this book out of curiosity from the university Library and found it quite amusing to read and make connections between it and other beliefs.
Feb 22, 2009
I forgot that I went through this last summer. I didn't read it, exactly, but I did what I could. Very interesting the way the scholars carve up syntax, turning relative pronouns into questions and prepositional phrases into nouns. Suffice it to say I'm not a mystic, so I found the method more interesting than the matter. . . mad reading, creative reading.
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