4 passagesc. 13th century CEHebrew / AramaicCC-BY
Individual passages from Zohar (Midrash HaNeelam), indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Like one moment there’s nothing, and the next, BAM! The whole shebang is right there in front of you? Jewish tradition has a fascinating take on creation that might resonate with t...
Jewish tradition has a concept called Gehenna, often translated as Hell, though it’s more of a purgatorial realm of purification. And guarding the gates, or at least playing a key ...
The familiar story is this: from Genesis: the serpent, the forbidden fruit, the exile. But what then? Did the Garden just sit there, empty and forlorn? Not quite. According to Jewi...
One powerful idea, found in Midrash (rabbinic interpretive commentary) ha-Ne'elam and the Zohar Hadash, is that the Garden of Eden is actually hidden. So hidden, in fact, that "it ...
