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Kabbalah took hold in Spain in the Jewish community under Islam and Christianity , 68 but especially under Christian Spain , Moshe de Leon the writer of the Zohar : 69 where he base on the tradition of the tree of live , in the section Rose ( Zohar ) -specifically why they are 13 petals representing Israel as 13 , since Joseph two sons add to 13 — while , Gematria is a factor , in the same section the introduction to the Aleph-Bet , with numerical which , follow the tradition of Rabbi Akiva , in the Midrash otiot of Rabbi Akiva 70 and Moses ben Nahman of Girona . 71 Kabbalah took root in Spain because hope under such durance and violence . 72
forcibly baptize the children of mixed marriages between Jews and Christians , Norman Roth , 1994 . Jews , Visigoths , and Muslims in Medieval Spain : Cooperation and Conflict . Netherlands : E . J . Brill . 64 The Granada massacre took place on 30 December 1066 when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in
Granada , which was at that time in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus , Muslim mob stormed the Royal Palace where Joseph had had sought refuge , then crucified him . After that , the instigators attacked 1500 Jewish families , killing approximately a 4,000 Granada Jews . Lucien Gubbay , 1999 Sunlight and Shadow : The Jewish Experience of Islam . New York : Other Press 65 Assis , Yom Tov , 1988 . The Jews of Spain : From Settlement to Expulsion , Jerusalem : The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem 66 Gampel , Benjamin R , 1992 . Jews , Christians , and Muslims in Medieval Iberia : Convivencia through the Eyes
of Sephardic Jews , in Convivencia : Jews , Muslims , and Christians in Medieval Spain , ed . Vivian B . Mann , Thomas F . Glick , and Jerrilynn D . Dodds , New York : George Braziller , Inc 67 Stillman , Norman 1979 . Aspects of Jewish Life in Islamic Spain in Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle
Ages , ed . Paul E . Szarmach , Albany : State University of New York Press 68 Dan , J . and Kiener , R ., 1986 . The Early Kabbalah , Mahwah , N . J .: Paulist Press 69 The author of the Zohar , has been under controversy : A story tells that after the death of Moses de Leon , a rich
man of Avila named Joseph offered Moses ' widow ( who had been left without any means of supporting herself ) a large sum of money for the original from which her husband had made the copy . She confessed that her husband himself was the author of the work . She had asked him several times , she said , why he had chosen to credit his own teachings to another , and he had always answered that doctrines put into the mouth of the miracle-working Shimon bar Yochai would be a rich source of profit . The story indicates that shortly after its appearance the work was believed by some to have been written by Moses de Leon . Jacobs , Joseph ; Broydé , Isaac , 1905 . Zohar . Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk & Wagnalls Company , However , Isaac evidently ignored the woman ' s alleged confession in favor of the testimony of Joseph ben Todros and of Jacob , a pupil of Moses de León , both of whom assured him on oath that the work was not written by de Leon . Scholem noticed the Zohar ' s frequent errors in Aramaic grammar , its suspicious traces of Spanish words and sentence patterns . Scholars have also suggested the possibility that the Zohar was written by a group of people , including de Leon . This theory generally presents de Leon as having been the leader of a mystical school , whose collective effort resulted in the Zohar , Studies in the Zohar , Yehuda Liebes , 1993 , SUNY Press , SUNY series in Judaica : Hermeneutics , Mysticism , and Religion . Another explanation , de Leon receive part as oral tradition and He or with others wrote the Zohar for the first time . 70 S . Wiener , Bibliotheca Friedlandiana Petersburg -1893-1901 71 Ramban ( Nachmanides ) Commentary on the Torah , Trans . by Dr . Charles B . Chavel , ( New York : Shilo
Publishing House , 1971 ) 72 Chaim Raphael : The Road from Babylon : The story of Sephardi and Oriental Jews , 1985 Harper & Row , Publishers , New York
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