The interpretation of a passage from this text eventually resulted in the creation of the Donmeh ethnic group in Anatolia after the acclamation of a man named Zevi sparked the Sabbatean movement.
The interpretation of a passage from this text eventually resulted in the creation of the Donmeh ethnic group in Anatolia after the acclamation of a man named Zevi sparked the Sabbatean movement. A tree and spring legendarily appeared to the compiler of this work, allowing him to live in a cave for thirteen years. Aegidius of Viterbo was much-enamored of this text, which is considered incomplete with appendices like the Raze de-Razin and the Idra. Analysis of this text was long concerned with the contrasting worlds of Chaos and (*) Rectification, or Tohu and Tikun, and culminated in the writing of Isaac Luria. It defines five realms emanating from the "infinite" embodied by God referred to as "Ein Sof," which manifests in ten intertwined aspects. Attributed by Moses de Leon to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and describing the role of the Sefirot, for 10 points, name this book of Jewish mysticism, the foundational text of Kabbalah.
The interpretation of a passage from this text eventually resulted in the creation of the Donmeh ethnic group in Anatolia after the acclamation of a man named Zevi sparked the Sabbatean movement.
Zohar