Capitolo 78
or less lost time with the subject, and then the Kabbala took a more daring
flight. Ezra or Azriel, a teacher of Nachmanides compiled a book
"Shine" called (_Bahir_) of year 1240. You/he/she immediately was concerned
as a very ancient book. As you/he/she will be seen, the same pretense of the antiquity
you/he/she was done with respect to another Kabbalistic famous jobs of a later
generation. Under Todros Abulafia (1234-1304) and Abraham Abulafia
(1240-1291), the movement mystical takings a practical form and the
Jewish masses very you/they were excited by histories of miracles completed and of
the aspect of a new Messiah.
To this moment Moses of Leon (been approximately born in Leon in the 1250, it died in
Arevalo in 1305) he/she wrote the most famous Kabbalistics they book of the Middle ones
Age. This had called, in the imitation of the Bahir, the "Shine" (_Zohar_),
and its bright success was equal to its title. It not only did this
increase of extraordinary book the Kabbala to the zenith of his/her influence, but
it gave him a firm and, as it has it tried, unassailable base. As the
Bahir, the Zohar was not proposed to the public on his own worths, but
you/he/she was announced as the job of Simon, the child of Yochai in that the lived
second century. The Zohar, was false, you/he/she had been hidden inside a
cavern in Galilee for more than thousand years, and you/he/she had now been
suddenly discovered. The Zohar is, indeed, a job of genius, his/her
the spiritual beauty, his/her desire, his/her audacious image, his/her depth of the devotion,
classifying him/it among the great books of the world. His/her literary style,
however it is less meritorious,; it is difficult and involved. As
Chatterton dressed his/her ideas in a false-archaic English, so Moses of
Leon used an idiom of Aramaic to which he clumsily handled and not as one
the born way. It would not be so important to insist on the fact that
the Zohar was a literary falsification that has pretended than to an antiquity it
doesn't possess, it was not it that many Hebrews and Cristiano he/she anchors they write as