Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An influential text of the Jewish tradition of kabbalah, written in Aramaic and Hebrew. Although it is popularly attributed to a second-century rabbi, most of it was probably composed in the late 13th century by a Spanish kabbalist drawing upon earlier traditions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
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- proper noun A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
Etymologies
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M. Vulliaud, who has collated all these views in the course of some fifty pages, shows that although the name Zohar might have originated with M.ses de Leon, the ideas it embodied were far older than the thirteenth century.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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Its title Zohar (light, splendour) is derived from the words of Genesis
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The Gnosis are after the mysterious artifact, the Zohar, which is onboard the Woglinde the time of the attack.
Xenosaga: The Animation, Volume One Review | The Anime Blog 2007
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The Gnosis are after the mysterious artifact, the Zohar, which is onboard the Woglinde the time of the attack.
Xenosaga: The Animation, Volume One Review | The Anime Blog 2007
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After I bought it, I read the introductions in English and saw that the book was originally part of something called the Zohar project, which intended to distribute copies of this small book for free.
Illumination in Shanghai (and Crown Heights) | Jewschool 2007
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It was called the Zohar – the light – and was a deeply complex text that offers a philosophy for life including meditation, yoga and astrology.
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During the Q and A I got him to say that The Zohar is a projection.
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During the Q and A I got him to say that The Zohar is a projection.
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Even the understanding of the 12th-century manuscript, called the Zohar, on which modern Kabbalah teaching is based, is made surprisingly user- friendly.
Is an Obsession With a Sinister Cult About to Destroy Madonna’s Marriage? 2004
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For instance, to make any progress in Kabbalah, you are urged to buy the holy book, the Zohar, which is 23 volumes written in Aramaic, translated into incomprehensible English, and costs Pounds 289.
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