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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 imagery and symbolism are rich and fluid, but they follow a pattern, the pattern of the sefirot. The Zohar rarely describes the entire sefirotic system. It even avoids the term sefirot and instead speaks of lights, levels, links, roots, garments of the King, crowns of the King, and dozens of other images for the individual sefirot. The reader must interpret the symbolism and identify the corresponding sefirah.120 As noted above, the term sefirot originally meant “numbers” or numerical potencies,
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