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**The Zohar** (Hebrew *“The Book of Splendor”*) is a foundational text of medieval Jewish **Kabbalah**—a mystical-religious cipher wrapped in **Aramaic literary disguise**—written and compiled in Spain around **1280-1300 A.D.** by a Sephardic mystic named **Moses de León**, not by the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai as it fraudulently claims.
Contents & Structure:
- Layered commentary on the **Torah and Genesis–Leviticus**.
- **Complex Gnostic** cosmology: ten “Sephirot” emanations, tikkun shevirat kelim (“fixing the shattered vessels”), and **un-Biblical doctrines** like reincarnation (gilgul) and sexualized shekinah mysticism within the “Divine Supernal Man” (Anthropos).
- **Dual authorship**: Abraham ben David of Posquières exposed it as de León’s forgery in 1290; stylistic linguistics confirm 13th-century Spanish Aramaic salted with **late post-Talmudic** idiom.
Use Today:
- Orthodox and Chassidic Jews treat it as canon.
- Masonic-occult syncretists (Golden Dawn, O.T.O.) adopted entire passages for Western esotericism.
- Rabbinate deploys Kabbalah theory ( **Talmudic Judaism = Pharisaic; Zohar = Lurianic overlay** ) to justify **anti-Biblical** concepts—the same school that spun into Sabbatai-Zvi false-messianism and has ZERO connection to **Biblical Israel’s** written or Mosaic covenant system.