Shaarei Zohar ("Gates of the Zohar") is Rabbi Reuven Margaliot's classic study of where the Zohar stands on halacha and aggadah, on beliefs and on character traits. Throughout, he compares its teachings with the words of the Sages in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds and the Midrashim.
Rabbi Margaliot spent decades editing and annotating the Zohar, Zohar Chadash, Tikkunei Zohar and Sefer HaBahir. In this work he follows the Zohar's statements into the wider rabbinic literature, from the Geonim and the early halachic authorities (Rishonim) through the great Acharonim. He shows where the Zohar agrees with the Talmud and Midrash, where it explains or adds to them, and where it takes a position of its own.
- Arranged according to the order of the tractates of the Talmud and the Midrashim, so readers can use it alongside their regular Gemara study
- Detailed source references to the Zohar, Tikkunei Zohar, Zohar Chadash and later halachic literature
- A detailed subject index
This new, corrected edition from Mossad Harav Kook has been completely re-typeset in a clear, easy-to-read font across 718 pages. It is an essential reference for Talmud students, halachic scholars and anyone studying the relationship between the Zohar and the revealed Torah.
The text is in Hebrew and Aramaic.