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Issue 2 | June-July 2010
Issue 2 | June-July 2010
The Circle of Life by Ze'ev Raban, combining Jewish symbolic imagery with emblems of the Freemasons | Courtesy of the Doron-Winter family
Articles
Yehuda Yifrach
Outside the Box
The Zohar is structured as a commentary on the Torah, divided into sections corresponding to the weekly portion.
The commentaries in the Zohar are traditionally believed to have been handed down from Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai
Yehuda Yifrach
Since the secret oral traditions of the Kabbala were first committed to parchment in the 13th century, the controversy has raged fast and furious. Who wrote the Zohar? And why?
Yehuda Yifrach
In 1286 the Jewish world was in tur
Yehuda Yifrach
The secret of the Zohar's allure seems to be in its novel ideas and the challenging concept of freedom that it proffers – the freedom to interpret anew, to imagine, to initiate and develop. The challenge posed to orthodox thought by its sex
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