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In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality. Hellner-Eshed's book investigates the flow of this river in the world of the Zoharic heroes, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and his disciples, as they embark upon their wondrous spiritual adventures. By focusing on the Zohar's language of mystical experience and its unique features, the author is able to provide remarkable scholarly insight into the mystical dimensions of the Zohar, namely the human quest for an enhanced experience of the living presence of the divine and the Zohar's great call to awaken human consciousness.

Cabala. --- Mysticism --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Judaism. --- Cabala --- Judaism --- Zohar. --- Book of splendor --- Midrash de-Rabbi Shimʻon ben Yoḥai --- Midrash ha-zohar --- Midrash Yehi Or --- Sefer ha-zohar --- Sii︠a︡nie --- Sohar --- Yerushalmi --- Zoğar

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This monograph discusses the Zohar, the most important book of the Kabbalah, as a late strata of the Midrashic literature. The author concentrates on the 'expanded' biblical stories in the Zohar and on its relationship to the ancient Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and critical examination of these biblical themes reveals aspects of continuity and change in the history of the old Aggadic story and its way into the Zoharic corpus. The detailed description of this literary process also reveals the world of the authors of the Zohar, their spiritual distress, mystical orientations, and self-consciousness.

Cabala. --- Aggada --- Midrash --- Cabbala --- Jews --- Kábala --- Kabalah --- Kabbala --- Kabbalah --- Qabalah --- Jewish literature --- Magic --- Mysticism --- History and criticism. --- Cabala --- Judaism --- Zohar. --- Book of splendor --- Midrash de-Rabbi Shimʻon ben Yoḥai --- Midrash ha-zohar --- Midrash Yehi Or --- Sefer ha-zohar --- Sii︠a︡nie --- Sohar --- Yerushalmi --- Zoğar --- Aggadah. --- Kabbalah. --- Medieval Jewry. --- Midrash.