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    The Zohar is a foundational text in Jewish mysticism that first appeared in 13th century Spain. It is a collection of books that discuss mystical interpretations of scripture, theology, cosmology, and human psychology. This anthology, edited by Isaiah Tishby, selects and organizes excerpts from the much larger Zoharic corpus thematically. It provides helpful introductions and annotations to elucidate the esoteric concepts and make the text more accessible to readers. The anthology is a landmark in modern scholarship on the Zohar and opened up understanding of Jewish mysticism to wider audiences.

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    The Zohar is a foundational text in Jewish mysticism that first appeared in 13th century Spain. It is a collection of books that discuss mystical interpretations of scripture, theology, cosmology, and human psychology. This anthology, edited by Isaiah Tishby, selects and organizes excerpts from the much larger Zoharic corpus thematically. It provides helpful introductions and annotations to elucidate the esoteric concepts and make the text more accessible to readers. The anthology is a landmark in modern scholarship on the Zohar and opened up understanding of Jewish mysticism to wider audiences.

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    The Zohar is a foundational text in Jewish mysticism that first appeared in 13th century Spain. It is a collection of books that discuss mystical interpretations of scripture, theology, cosmology, and human psychology. This anthology, edited by Isaiah Tishby, selects and organizes excerpts from the much larger Zoharic corpus thematically. It provides helpful introductions and annotations to elucidate the esoteric concepts and make the text more accessible to readers. The anthology is a landmark in modern scholarship on the Zohar and opened up understanding of Jewish mysticism to wider audiences.

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    Tishby Isaiah - WISDOM OF THE ZOHAR

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    The Zohar is a foundational text in Jewish mysticism that first appeared in 13th century Spain. It is a collection of books that discuss mystical interpretations of scripture, theology, cosmology, and human psychology. This anthology, edited by Isaiah Tishby, selects and organizes excerpts from the much larger Zoharic corpus thematically. It provides helpful introductions and annotations to elucidate the esoteric concepts and make the text more accessible to readers. The anthology is a landmark in modern scholarship on the Zohar and opened up understanding of Jewish mysticism to wider audiences.

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    TAGS: Religion, Judaism, Mysticism, Kabbalah, Spirituality, Zohar, Occult, Midrash,

    Jewish literature

    Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts, 3 vols. (Isaiah Tishby, ed.)

    * The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts (Littman Library of Jewish


    Civilization, 1989).
    Three volumes in one. Isaiah Tishby, ed.; David Goldstein, trans. — PDF

    The Zohar has been described as "the richest, most imaginative work in the annals
    of Jewish mysticism."
    Coming to light in late 13th-century Castile, the Zohar's influence grew slowly at
    first,
    but by the 17th century it was accorded quasi-canonical status in most Jewish
    communities,
    alongside the Bible and Talmud. The Zohar is not one book, but a group of books,
    and contains mystical discussions on the nature of God, the origin and structure of
    the universe,
    the nature of souls, sin, redemption, good and evil, and related topics.

    For over fifty years, ever since its first appearance in Hebrew as Mishnat ha-Zohar
    (1949, 1961),
    Isaiah Tishby's study was hailed as a classic, a landmark in modern Hebrew letters.
    Beautifully written and deeply learned, it opened the recondite world of the Zohar
    to more than a generation of Hebrew readers.
    The publication of the long-awaited English translation in 1989 was therefore a
    cause for celebration
    and made the complexity and poetry of the Zohar's thought-world accessible to
    English readers for the first time.

    The work begins with an extended General Introduction (225 pages) which sets forth
    the literary analysis of the Zohar,
    the strange history of its composition and diffusion, the history of scholarship on
    the Zohar, the afterlife of the Zohar,
    and the basic events and personalities that form the framework of the Zohar.
    The remainder of the book is divided into thematically defined chapters, each
    prefaced by introductory explanations followed
    by a rich sampling of succinctly glossed primary sources and copious notes which
    decipher the theological meaning of the text.
    The scholarly value of the anthology is enhanced by a bibliography, glossary, and
    three indexes.

    Despite the importance of Mishnat ha-Zohar for generations of scholars and


    students, however,
    the anthologized texts were ultimately only excerpts from a dramatically larger
    textual stream.
    The principal virtue of Tishby's rich study is the organization it lends to the
    Zohar by bringing together passages
    on similar or related subjects — which, in the printed editions, are scattered all
    over the place
    — and by offering such complete and lucid introductions.
    In giving the reader so much help, Tishby makes the concepts of the Zohar, many of
    which are quite difficult and obscure,
    far more accessible than they would be from a translation standing alone.
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