Zohar: Title Page

This is an editorial production notice accompanying a digitized English translation of the Sepher ha-Zohar (the Zohar), a foundational Jewish mystical and Kabbalistic text. The specific translation, by Nurho de Manhar, covers approximately the first 200 pages of the Zohar — a commentary on Genesis through 12:24 — and was the longest continuous English excerpt of the Zohar in the public domain as of 2005, making it the preparer's primary justification for digitizing it. John Bruno Hare describes the methodology used to prepare the etext for the sacred-texts website: faithfully transcribing a specific 1980 Wizard's Bookshelf edition, correcting only obvious typographic errors, standardizing Bible citations, and omitting Theosophical commentary added by the 1980 editor while retaining marginal page and scripture references. A notable caution runs throughout: the translator Nurho de Manhar imported Theosophical terminology (e.g., "Karma," "Planes of Existence") into his translation, which Hare warns may mislead readers unfamiliar with Kabbalah, explicitly recommending against this as an introductory text. The notice is of interest primarily to researchers seeking a public-domain Zohar text or studying the history of Western esoteric translations of Jewish mystical literature, rather than to general readers of Kabbalah.

Zohar: Title Page

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