
By Melila Hellner-Eshed,Nathan Wolski
ISBN-10: 0804759391
ISBN-13: 9780804759397
ISBN-10: 0804778590
ISBN-13: 9780804778596
Hellner-Eshed's e-book investigates the stream of this river on the earth of the Zoharic heroes, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and his disciples, as they embark upon their wondrous non secular adventures. by means of targeting the Zohar's language of mystical event and its special beneficial properties, the writer is ready to offer awesome scholarly perception into the magical dimensions of the Zohar, specifically the human quest for an improved adventure of the dwelling presence of the divine and the Zohar's nice name to evoke human consciousness.
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