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    Moses de Leon was a 13th century Spanish cabalistic writer and author or compiler of the Zohar, one of the most important works of Jewish mysticism. He wrote several mystical and cabalistic works in the late 13th century drawing on Jewish philosophers. Toward the end of the 13th century, he wrote or compiled the Zohar, ascribing it to Simeon ben Yohai, though some suspected he was the true author and had ascribed it to Simeon ben Yohai to give it more authority. The contents of the Zohar have since been accepted by all cabalists.

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    Moses de Leon was a 13th century Spanish cabalistic writer and author or compiler of the Zohar, one of the most important works of Jewish mysticism. He wrote several mystical and cabalistic works in the late 13th century drawing on Jewish philosophers. Toward the end of the 13th century, he wrote or compiled the Zohar, ascribing it to Simeon ben Yohai, though some suspected he was the true author and had ascribed it to Simeon ben Yohai to give it more authority. The contents of the Zohar have since been accepted by all cabalists.

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    MOSES DE LEON (BEN SHEM-OB)

    By: Kaufmann Kohler, Meyer Kayserling


    Cabalistic writer; author, or redactor, of the Zohar; born at Leon, Spain,
    about 1250; lived in Guadalajara, Valladolid, and Avila; died at Arevalo in
    1305, while returning to his home. He was familiar with the philosophers
    of the Middle Ages and with the whole literature of mysticism, and knew
    and used the writings of Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah ha-Levi,
    Maimonides, etc. He knew how to charm with brilliant and striking
    phrases without expressing any well-defined thought. He was a ready
    writer and wrote several mystical and cabalistic works in quick
    succession. In the comprehensive "Sefer ha-Rimmon," written in 1287
    and still extant in manuscript, he treated from a mystical standpoint the
    objects and reasons for the ritual laws, dedicating the book to Levi ben
    Todros Abulafia. In 1290 he wrote "Ha-Nefesh ha-akamah," or "HaMish al" (Basel, 1608, and frequently found in manuscript), which shows
    even greater cabalistic tendencies. In this work he attacks the
    philosophers of religion and deals with the human soul as "a likeness of
    its heavenly prototype," with its state after death, with its resurrection,
    and with the transmigration of souls. "She el ha-odesh" (written in
    1292), another book of the same kind, is dedicated to Todros ha-Levi
    Abulafia. In the "Mishkan ha-'Edut," or "Sefer ha-Sodot," finished in 1293,
    he treats of heaven and hell, after the apocryphal Book of Enoch; also of
    atonement. He wrote as well a cabalistic explanation of the first chapter
    of Ezekiel.

    Toward the end of the thirteenth century Moses de Leon wrote or


    compiled a cabalistic midrash to the Pentateuch full of strange mystic
    allegories, and ascribed it to Simeon ben Yo ai, the great saint of the
    Tannaim. The work, written in peculiar Aramaic, is entitled "Midrash de R.
    Shimeon ben Yo ai," better known as the Zohar. The book aroused due
    suspicion at the outset. The story runs that after the death of Moses de
    Leon a rich man from Avila offered the widow, who had been left without
    means, a large sum of money for the original from which her husband
    had made the copy, and that she then confessed that her husband
    himself was the author of the work. She had asked him several times,
    she said, why he had put his teachings into the mouth of another, but he
    had always answered that doctrines put into the mouth of the miracle-

    working Simeon ben Yo ai would be a rich source of profit. Others


    believed that Moses de Leon wrote the book by the magic power of the
    Holy Name. At any rate the contents of the book have been accepted
    and approved by all cabalists, and can by no means be regarded as
    mere inventions and forgeries of Moses de Leon.

    Bibliography:
    Ahimaaz Chronicle, ed. London, pp. 95 et seq.;
    Jellinek, Moses b. Schem-Tob de Leon und Seine Verhltniss zum Sohar, Leipsic,
    1851;
    Grtz, Gesch. vii. 231 et seq.;
    Geiger, Das Judenthum und Seine Geschichte, iii. 75 et seq., Breslau, 1871;
    De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. Wrterb. p. 177;
    Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1852 et seq.;
    idem, Hebr. Bibl. x. 156 et seq.

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    http://www.ashlagbaroch.org/Zohar/
    http://israel613.com/HA-ZOHAR/ZOHAR_CHADASH_BERESHIT_1.htm
    http://www.sup.org/zohar/?d=Aramaic%20Texts&f=index
    http://www.hebrewbooks.org/21828
    http://www.hebrewbooks.org/44307
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    http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/traduccion/me+afano+en.html
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    http://www.linguee.es/espanolingles/traduccion/existen+diferentes+opiniones.html
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