Hard Facts
What language was the Zohar originally written in?
Aramaic
Who is a key figure in Catalonian Kabbalah?
Moses Nachmonides
What does the queen returning to the king on her own predict will happen to Am Israel?
We will return to Israel and Moschiach will arrive
What time of the day do the mystics study the Torah?
Midnight until Dawn
Is the Zohar better described as a book or a library?
A library. It is written by multiple different authors from multiple different strata.
What place and time period was the Zohar SET in?
Galilee after the Romans took over
Who is Moses de Leon?
A main writer of the Zohar
In the story of the Dominated Dominates, what do the head and stinging tail represent? Hint: It is reflective of the time period the Zohar is written in
Stinging tail = Catholic church
Head = House of Israel
Why does Rabbi Pinchas write that the Zohar kept him Jewish?
Judaism is interesting but his soul needed the Zohar. The Zohar is enchanting to the soul.
Hillel Zeitilin Hatekufa sees the Zohar as a sublime, divine soul that descended down to the earth; an emanation of Hashem. What unconventional place did he bring his Zohar?
A concentration camp
What place and time was the Zohar WRITTEN in?
Spain, during the Reconquista
What role did Daniel Matt play in sharing the Zohar with the world?
Translated it into the Pritzker edition
In the story of the Displaced Queen and the Raising the Queen from the Dust, both can be interpreted as the relationship between which two Sefirot?
Shekinah and Tiferet
Rabbi Brawer says every time he reads or studies the Zohar, it takes him to a new place. This idea illustrates Daniel Matt’s belief that one should enter the Zohar study with what intention?
One of an explorer, with wonder, with no perceived intentions.
The Zohar was a radical departure from Jewish texts that came before it because of how it represents ____?
Hashem