Walking into the Tangled Woods of the Zohar

With its arcane terminology, numinous insights, and recondite intimations of supernal connections, the Zohar – the profound mystical compendium of oblique commentary to veiled passages of Torah – is, well, nearly incomprehensible. On the other hand, if you managed your way through that last sentence, you’ll likely find this examination of several discourses from the prologue a worthy challenge, maybe even interesting. We’ll visit the Zohar in English, with the help of a commentary in the style of Adin Steinsaltz, though not written by Steinsaltz. You are invited to traipse among the tangled, gnarled roots that lead into the Zohar. Who knows? We might emerge thinking we actually know where we’ve been, with a hint of where we might be going.