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LEON, MOSES BEN SI

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEON, See also:MOSES See also:BEN SI EM-TOBI DE (d. 1305), Jewish See also:scholar, was See also:born in Leon (See also:Spain) in the See also:middle of the 13th See also:century and died at Arevalo. His fame is due to his authorship of the most influential Kabbalist See also:work, the Zohar (see KABBALA), which was attributed to See also:Simon b. Yol7ai, a See also:Rabbi of the 2nd century. In See also:modern times the See also:discovery of the modernity of the Zohar has led to injustice to the author. Moses de Leon undoubtedly used old materials and out of them constructed a work of See also:genius. The discredit into which he See also:fell was due partly to the unedifying incidents of his See also:personal career. He led a wandering See also:life, and was more or less of an adventurer. But as to the greatness of his work, the profundity of his See also:philosophy and the brilliance of his religious See also:idealism, there can be no question. See See also:Graetz, See also:History of the See also:Jews, vol. iv. ch. i.; Geiger, Leon de See also:Modena. (I.

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