In the Zohar, Atziluth is taken to be simply the direct emanation of God, in contradistinction to the other emanations derived from the Sephirot.
Huss' research interests cover the Zohar and its reception, modern and contemporary Kabbalah, Western Esotericism, and the New Age.
Michael Bar-Zohar, Bitter Scent: The Case of L'Oréal, Nazis, and the Arab Boycott (London, Dutton Books: 1996) p.
Isaac Luria reinterpreted and recast the whole scheme of Kabbalah in the 16th century, essentially making the second of two different versions of the Kabbalah: the Medieval (the initial, direct understandings of the Zohar, later synthesised by Moshe Cordovero) and the Lurianic.
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Wide discussion of the Partsufim is found in the Medieval Kabbalah of the Zohar, before Isaac Luria.
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To this reformed state, Isaac Luria attributed the former Kabbalistic concepts of Yosher (harmonised "Upright" arrangement of the sephirot), and the many Zoharic passages expounding the Partzufim (Divine "Personas/Configurations"-particular Divine manifestations).
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Their origins come from Medieval Kabbalah and the Zohar.
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In Medieval Kabbalah, the task of man is the Yichud-Union on High of the Male-Female principles of Divinity, healing the apparent separation and concealment of the Shechinah Female indwelling Divine presence that sustains this world from the "Holy One Blessed Be He", the transcendent Divine on High.
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In the Zohar and elsewhere, there are these four Worlds or planes of existence.
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It moved the origin of perceived exile in the Sephirot to Primordial Creation, before the influence of Man on supernal harmony, as in Medieval Kabbalah
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They are fully found in the Medieval Kabbalah texts, such as the central work in Kabbalah, the Zohar.
The Zohar, the most important book of Jewish mysticism, states that "whatever falls into the deep is lost forever; ... it acts like the scapegoat for the ablution of sins" (Zohar, Vayikra 101a,b).
Historian Michael Bar-Zohar claimed for a number of years that Cohen had privately confessed in his role in the attack to Ben-Gurion, but Cohen never responded to these claims publicly.
Another influence on the Zohar which Scholem identified, was a circle of Kabbalists in Castile who dealt with the appearance of an evil side emanating from within the world of the sephirot.
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Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes (who wrote his doctorate degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.
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Of his numerous manuscripts which contained glosses to the Talmud, Midrash, Shulkan 'Aruk, and explanatory notes to his father's works, a commentary on the introduction to the Tikkune Zohar (Vilna, 1867), a commentary on Psalms I-C באר אברהם (Warsaw, 1887), Sa'arat Eliyahu, exegetical notes and biographical data about his father (Jerusalem, 1889), and Targum Abraham, notes on Targum Onkelos (Jerusalem, 1896), have been published.
Alma Zohar is the daughter of painter Israel Zohar and half-sister of electronic musician Matan Zohar (a.k.a. Mat Zo).
1863 The Great Mystery, or How can Three be One (London, 1863) - an endeavour to prove the doctrine of the Trinity from the Zohar, in which he made further critical comments against Gesenius including that he had misunderstood the grammar and perpetuated a hoax concerning the pluralis excellentiae of Elohim.
The Zohar predicts, based on its interpretation of the upper and lower waters of Noah's flood (rains from above, wellsprings from below), that in the sixth century of the Hebrew sixth millennium (corresponding to the secular years 1740-1840) Wisdom will flood the World in preparation for the Messianic era.
In his book "Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition" (1958) he attempted to trace the roots of early psychoanalytic concepts and methods in the Kabbalah, the Zohar, and talmudic interpretations.
In the Zohar (55b), Hadraniel speaks to Adam about Adam's possession of the Book of the Angel Raziel, which was said to contain secret information that not even the angels knew.
The two leading actors of "Her Song" Rani Aviv who played Zohar Lahat (Ran Danker) and Yonatan Barak who played Ariel Silver (Oshri Cohen) get ready to go to the army the day after they finish shooting the final episode of the second season.
When Isaac met Moses of Leon at Valladolid, the latter took an oath that he had a copy of the Zohar written by Shimon bar Yochai himself in his house at Ávila.
Of note are his youngest son, Matan Zohar, who is an internationally acclaimed DJ and electronic music producer working under the name Mat Zo, and his daughter, Alma Taoz, who has achieved moderate success in Israel as a songwriter and musician under the name Alma Zohar.
On June 1, 2007 Zohar was in the starting line up of the first ever Israel national beach soccer team team.
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Zohar grew up in a ma'abara (transit camp) on the border of Bat Yam and Jaffa, where the family's ramshackle hut was not even sufficient to protect them from the elements.
Jean de Pauly (Albania, 1860 – Lyon, 1903) was the translator of French editions of the portions of the Talmud and the first complete translation of the Zohar .
From age one to eleven, Zohar and his family lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States.
Zohar studied in Akko, and in the agricultural school in Nahalal.
According to the author of Yewen Meẓulah, he wrote also a commentary on the Zohar, titled Machane Dan, in conformity with the cabalistic system of Luria, but this work has not been preserved.
His students included Rabbi Shmuel Ozida, author of Midrash Shmuel on Avot, and Rabbi Avraham Galante, author of Yareach Yakar on Zohar.
Soluto is funded by Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Giza Venture Capital, Proxima Ventures, CrunchFund, Innovation Endeavors, Initial Capital, and angel investors including Chris Dixon, Yuval Neeman, Saar Gillai and Nadav Zohar.
The righteous Jews of his generation said he had the soul of the famous Yenukah, mentioned in the Zohar portion of Balak.