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Zohar: Genesis: Chapter LXXX. Section Lekh Lekha or the Call of Abram

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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 — 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.

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