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This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in thirteenth-century Spain by Moses de León, a Spanish scholar.

The son is not earthly Israel but its divine archetype, the central sefirah called Beauty of Israel. Of course the theme of the Son of God is not original to Christianity; its ancient mythological derivation is well known. However, the use of such language and imagery by a Jewish mystic in Christian Spain is remarkable. The author of the Zohar is translating Christological formulations into the language of kabbalistic myth. Similarly, Trinitarian formulae appear occasionally in descriptions of the
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