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Daniel C. Matt · 2006
A modern English translation and scholarly commentary on the Zohar, the foundational text of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), focusing on the Genesis portions. Matt's translation draws on manuscript variants and contemporary Kabbalistic scholarship to make this medieval Aramaic work accessible to English readers.
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What this book knows
The Zohar reveals divinity as a living erotic drama — sefirot uniting, separating, and yearning across cosmic and human planes.
religion-and-sex
Because of his sexual purity Joseph attained the level of Yesod, the divine phallus and site of the covenant, known as Righteous.
ZOHAR-1-RC-612Whoever excites himself lustfully is not allowed to enter the domain of the blessed Holy One; sexual purity is a prerequisite for encountering Shekhinah.
ZOHAR-1-RC-599desire
Shekhinah achieves reunion with Tif'eret, now face-to-face rather than back-to-back — the original two-faced Adam restored.
ZOHAR-1-RC-490Shekhinah on Her own lacks the waters of emanation, impoverished and dry until filled by the flow of Yesod.
ZOHAR-1-RC-503faith-and-doubt
When Shekhinah withdraws from the world, there is no one to watch over it, and Judgment dominates; the wicked are obliterated.
ZOHAR-1-RC-268The work of My hands is drowning in the sea, and you are singing? — God's heart was saddened by the destruction of humankind.
ZOHAR-1-RC-6000 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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