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Moses de León (c. 1240 – 1305), known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov (משה בן שם-טוב די-ליאון ), was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who first publicized the Zohar. Modern scholars believe the Zohar is his own work, despite his claim that he took traditions going back to Shimon bar Yochai and committed them to writing.
Moses De León (born 1250, León [Spain]—died 1305, Arevalo) was a Jewish Kabbalist and presumably the author of the Sefer ha-Zohar (“Book of Splendour”), the most important work of Jewish mysticism; for a number of centuries its influence among Jews rivaled that of the Old Testament and the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore ...
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Moses ben Shem Tov de León was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who is believe to be the author of the Zohar. de León lived in Muslim Spain and little to nothing is known of his upbringing, his teachers or his early studies. Apart from religious study, de León was apparently attracted to philosophy - Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed was ...
For many years, it was carefully guarded and most Jews did not even know of its existence until it was disseminated by Rabbi Moshe de Leon in the 13th century. Written in ancient Aramaic, the standard Zohar is divided into three volumes, with sections corresponding to the 54 portions of the Torah.
The Jewish mystic Moses de Leon (ca. 1250-1305) is the reputed author of the most important of Jewish mystical books, the "Book of Zohar." Born in León, Spain, Moses de Leon lived in Guadalajara for the first 30 years of his life, then moved to Ávila, where he spent the remainder of his years.
Moses de Leon (c. 1250 – 1305), known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov (משה בן שם-טוב די-ליאון), was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who is believed to be the author or redactor of the mystical work known as the Zohar, considered the most important book of Jewish mysticism. For several centuries after its publication this work ...
MOSES BEN SHEM TOV DE LEON (c. 1240–1305), a leading kabbalist, author of the bulk of the *Zohar. (For later views on the authorship of the Zohar, see the addendum to *Zohar .) Moses was apparently born in Leon, near Castile – he also calls himself Moses "from the town of Leon," in his Shekel ha-Kodesh. Nothing is known of his teachers and ...
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