{"collection":"Texts of Judaism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_jud_zdm_zdm089_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_jud_zdm_zdm089_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_jud_zdm_zdm089_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/zdm/zdm089.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from the Zohar, the foundational text of Jewish Kabbalah (mystical Judaism), specifically from the section commenting on the Torah portion *Lekh Lekha* (Genesis 12:1). It takes the form of a rabbinic study session in which students of Rabbi Simeon offer esoteric interpretations of biblical verses, using Abraham's call from God as a springboard for mystical teaching. The central argument is that true righteousness requires not merely knowing the \"secret doctrine\" but living according to it \u2014 those who know yet fail to act are spiritually hollow and \"far from righteousness.\" The text presents a Kabbalistic cosmology in a numbered table correlating abstract principles (the Absolute, soul, spirit, intermediary faculties) with Sephiroth, the twenty-two letters, and the zodiac, framing the universe as a structured emanation from the One. A vivid eschatological passage warns that souls departing defiled bodies are shut out of heaven and fall to \"Duma\" (the angel of the dead) in a Sheol from which there is no return. The text is distinctive for weaving together ethical exhortation, speculative cosmology, and a poetic midnight scene in which God enters the Garden of Eden to commune with the righteous while students of the secret doctrine study below.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Zohar: Genesis: Chapter LXXX. Section Lekh Lekha or the Call of Abram","tradition":"Texts of Judaism","translated_text":null,"word_count":977}