Guide to the Book of Zohar

Professor Avraham Itzhak (Art) Green is one of the most important spiritual thinkers of contemporary Judaism, an American researcher of Jewish mysticism, and a rabbi. Among his numerous publications, the monographs "The Suffering Teacher: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov" and "These are the Words: A Dictionary of Jewish Mysticism" have been translated into Russian. The Book of Zohar has become one of the sacred texts for Kabbalists and later for a significant number of Jews, alongside the Bible and the Talmud. Although the texts of the Zohar became widely known only in the early 14th century, tradition holds that their genuine author is the main character of this book, one of the most authoritative sages of the Mishnah - the Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (2nd century CE). A significant portion of the Zohar is a collection of interpretations of the Torah text, in which the biblical narrative is interpreted as a multivalent symbolic description of processes occurring simultaneously in the material and spiritual realms of Divine emanation (the world of Sefirot), permeating all levels of the universe.