ZOHAR MA’ASEH

BREISHEIT SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BY MOSHE MILLER

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE   9

I- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Written Torah and the Oral Torah11

The Zohar16

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his circle 18

Kabbalah 19

The Contemplative Tradition 19

The Practical Tradition   20

Kabbalah and the Zohar. 21

II- THE STRUCTURE OF THE ZOHAR 22

III- MYSTICAL CONCEPTS IN THE ZOHAR 25

The Oneness of God25

The Or Ein Sof26

Planes of Reality — the Worlds 27

Adam Kadmon  27

Atzilut 30

Beriah 32

Yetzirah36

Asiyah   36

The Structure of Reality - the Sefirot. 39

Keter 42

Chochmah44

Binah46

Chesed. 49

Givurah49

Tiferet50

Netzach and Hod...,51

Yesod. 52

Malchut 53