The Book of Concealed Mystery

This is a book of the key text of the Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("Splendour"). The Zohar is a commentary on the Torah and although it is sometimes ascribed to a second—century rabbi, Simon Bar—Yochai, the form in which it is most widely known originates with Moses of Leon, a native of Granada, who died in 1305.The kabbalists believe that the undefinable origin of all things is Ein Sof — the cause of causes, the infinite, that which underlies everything. The universe emanates from ...