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Zohar

The Book of Radiance: the central work of Kabbalah, a mystical commentary on the Torah in Aramaic.

Also: Sefer ha-Zohar

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

The Zohar presents itself as the teaching of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai and his companions in second-century Galilee. Scholars attribute its core to Moses de León in thirteenth-century Castile. In a rich, symbolic Aramaic it interprets the Torah as a revelation of the sefirot and the inner life of God.