anit 150 ZO Hasan Pritzker Edition VOLUME ONE Translation and Commentary b Daniel C. Matt STANFORD UNIVERSITY PR STANFORD, CALIFORNIA MOORE COLLE LIBRARYation of the Zohar is made possible F lation and public The translation and pul ort of the Pritzker Family through the thoughifiul and generous SHPP Philanthropic Fund. ‘The administraive support 10 this project in is initial period by the aa ar oloical Union is gratefully acknowledged. Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2004 by Zohar Education Project, Inc. All rights reserved. For further information, including the Aramaic text of the Zohar, please visit www.sup.org/zohar Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zohar. English. The Zohat/translation and commentary by Daniel C. Matt.— Pritzker ed. v. cm. Text includes some words in Hebrew and Aramaic. Inch i references.

° ed ght?’ He responded, TR YP> me [sab] Whereas Cain brought aya ‘at the end of the the end of days Cain brought from the frit of the sil, as is said: from the i, “From the fruit of the soih as is said: Woe a Mra is hands have done shall be done to him. For aoa oe dees (Isaiah 3310-12). For they shall eat the fruit fat of I ASSo™ They shall eat—for he is drawn to thera, cli f Deat ra ane defile them. So Cain offered from his side, “hs for Abel, he brought x17 (gam hu), Hirm, foo to include the supernal side deriving from the side of ho ya. end of all flesh...Angel of Death for the tree of knowledge ‘Amanifesation of the demonic. See BT Ba- not at from it, for on the ‘va Batra 16a: “Resh Lakish said, ‘Satan, the you will surely die, evil impulse, and the Angel of Death are one and the same.” See Zohar 1:35b, 52a, 202a; 2:26ab-263a; sin was that he Moses de Leén, Sefer ha-Rimmon, 394-95. Shekhinah alone, On the phrase end of all fh, see Zohar other sefiot and 1584, 6ab. symbols the demonic power of death, the rated Shek end of the right symbolizes Shekhinah, hekhinah, calmiation ofthe fow of emanation hes from the other , race of the i side See Zohars754 GT) igbs anne iOS mat boas