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The Bahir

Illumination

Also known as El bahir; Sefer ha-bahir

by Aryeh Kaplan

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish
  • Content type: Fiction

1. Rabbi Nehuniah ben HaKana said: One verse (Job 37:21) states, "And now they do not see light, it is brilliant (Bahir) in the skies . . . [round about God in terrible majesty]."

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from bne and openlibrary matched “Cabala”, “cábala”, and “Kabbalah”. Retained metadata contains “Cabala” in the subject metadata and “Kabbalah” in the subject metadata.

    • cábala· via Biblioteca Nacional de España
    • Cabala· via Open Library
    • Kabbalah· via Open Library
    • Cabala· in subject
    • Kabbalah· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 10 editions; 2 cataloged here.

El bahir

1ª ed. en español

22 cm; 270 p.; il.; Índice

2005Equipo Difusor del LibroSpanish
  • 9788495593221
  • 849559322X
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Illumination

Open Library record

2001Weiser BooksBorrowable

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