{"id":23968,"date":"2020-08-16T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/ledition-du-zohar-de-mantoue-un-grand-dessin-identitaire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:58:55","slug":"the-edition-of-the-zohar-of-mantua-a-great-identity-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/en\/the-edition-of-the-zohar-of-mantua-a-great-identity-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mantua Zohar Edition and its impact on Jewish Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<style>.kt-img-overlay_9beaa5-0e .kt-image-overlay-wrap{max-width:776px;overflow:hidden;}.kt-img-overlay_9beaa5-0e .kt-image-overlay-wrap .kt-block-intrisic{padding-bottom:100%;}.kt-img-overlay_9beaa5-0e .kt-image-overlay-color-wrapper{opacity:0.01;}.kt-img-overlay_9beaa5-0e .kt-image-overlay-wrap:has(:focus-visible) .kt-image-overlay-color-wrapper{opacity:1 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kt-img-overlay_9beaa5-0e aligncenter\" data-aos=\"flip-up\" data-aos-easing=\"linear\"><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-wrap kt-over-image-zoomin\"><div class=\"kt-block-intrisic kt-over-set-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Zohar Nahmias\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" class=\"kt-img-overlay wp-image-15818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-scaled.jpg 776w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-scaled-600x792.jpg 600w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NAHMIAS_H_71-1_0252-1320x1742.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-color-wrapper\" style=\"opacity:0.01\"><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-color\" style=\"background-color:#fcf9f9;opacity:0.6\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"kt-imageoverlay-link\"><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-message kt-over-substyle-hidden_below kt-over-valign-center kt-over-halign-center\" style=\"border-color:rgba(252, 249, 249, 0.8);border-width:2px;left:10px;right:10px;bottom:10px;top:10px\"><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-inner\"><h1 class=\"image-overlay-title\" style=\"color:#2665bf;background:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);padding:5px 5px 5px 5px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px\">The Mantua Zohar Edition and its impact on Jewish Identity<\/h1><div class=\"kt-image-overlay-divider\" style=\"border-top-color:#1a4380;border-top-width:2px;width:80%;border-top-style:solid\"><\/div><h4 class=\"image-overlay-subtitle\" style=\"color:#133260;background:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);padding:5px 5px 5px 5px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px\">Giulio Busi<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"intervenant-article-wrap\"><article class=\"linked-post-block\"><a class=\"linked-post-thumb-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/en\/speaker\/giulio-busi\/\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-300x225.jpg\" class=\"linked-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Giulio Busi\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Giulio-Busi-Beit-Ha-Zohar-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"linked-post-body\"><h3 class=\"linked-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/en\/speaker\/giulio-busi\/\">Giulio Busi<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/article><\/div>        <style>\n        .intervenant-article-wrap{margin-top:12px;padding:10px 12px;text-align:center;max-width:380px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}\n        .linked-post-block{display:flex;flex-direction:column;align-items:center;justify-content:center;gap:12px}\n        .linked-post-thumb-wrap{display:block;width:140px;height:140px;border-radius:50%;overflow:hidden;flex:0 0 auto;box-shadow:0 6px 18px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);background-color:#f6f6f6}\n        .linked-post-thumb-wrap img{width:100%;height:100%;display:block;object-fit:cover}\n        .linked-post-title{font-family:serif;font-size:1.25rem;margin:0;font-weight:600;line-height:1.1}\n        .linked-post-title a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}\n        .linked-post-title a:hover{text-decoration:underline}\n        @media (max-width:900px){.intervenant-article-wrap{max-width:320px}.linked-post-thumb-wrap{width:120px;height:120px}}\n        @media (max-width:480px){.intervenant-article-wrap{max-width:260px}.linked-post-thumb-wrap{width:92px;height:92px}}\n        <\/style>\n        \n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-f54bf865\"><h2 class=\"uagb-heading-text\"><br\/>Paper of <a href=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/en\/speaker\/giulio-busi\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/intervenant\/giulio-busi\/\"> Giulio Busi <\/a><\/h2><div class=\"uagb-separator-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-separator\"><\/div><\/div><p class=\"uagb-desc-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/en\/event\/the-first-edition-of-the-zohar\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/beithazohar.com\/evenement\/la-premiere-edition-du-zohar\/\">Symposium on the first edition of the Zohar <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The impact of the Mantua <em>Zohar<\/em> edition on Early Modern Jewish society<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" I am indebted to my colleague and friend Raphael Ebgi, for having generously shared with me his notes on the Alphonsine Renaissance and its influence on the Zohar. Dr. Ebgi is presently working to a larger project on the setting of the Zohar in Medieval romance literature. \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"> I am indebted to my colleague and friend Raphael Ebgi, for having generously shared with me his notes on the Alphonsine Renaissance and its influence on the Zohar. Dr. Ebgi is presently working to a larger project on the setting of the Zohar in Medieval romance literature. <\/span> is clearly noticeable and has already been the subject of several scholarly studies<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"On the cultural significance of the publication of works on Kabbalah, and in particular, the Zohar, see I. Tishby, *Studies in Kabbalah and Its Branches* [ in Hebrew], vol . 1, Jerusalem 1982, p. 79-130. As Tishby has pointed out, it is true that there is no direct connection between the burning of the Talmud ordered by Pope Julius III in 1553 and the decision to print mystical texts. However, there is no doubt that the need to strengthen Judaism\u2019s \u201cresilience\u201d\u2014including through texts previously considered secret\u2014was a response to the material and cultural attack that the Counter-Reformation Church had perpetrated against the Jews. On the debate concerning the printing of Kabbalistic texts in the16th century, see S. Assaf, \u201cLe-Fulmus al Hadpasat Sifre Qabbalah,\u201d in Meqorot u-Mechqarim, Jerusalem 1946, pp. 238\u2013246; Sonne, Mi-Paulo ha-Revii ad Pius ha-Chamishi, Jerusalem 1954, pp. 132\u2013136; A. Yaari, *Studies in Hebrew Booklore* [in Hebrew], Jerusalem 1958, pp. 216\u2013219; D. Tamar, *Studies in the History of the Jewish People in Eretz Israel and in Italy* [ Heb.], Jerusalem 1986, pp. 164\u2013165; G. Busi, Mantova e la Qabbalah: Mantua and the Kabbalah, Mantua\u2013Milan 2001.        \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">On the cultural significance of the publication of works on Kabbalah, and in particular, the <em>Zohar<\/em>, see I. Tishby, <em>*Studies in Kabbalah and Its Branches* [ <\/em>in Hebrew]<em>, vol <\/em>. 1, Jerusalem 1982, p. 79-130. As Tishby has pointed out, it is true that there is no direct connection between the burning of the Talmud ordered by Pope Julius III in 1553 and the decision to print mystical texts. However, there is no doubt that the need to strengthen Judaism\u2019s \u201cresilience\u201d\u2014including through texts previously considered secret\u2014was a response to the material and cultural attack that the Counter-Reformation Church had perpetrated against the Jews. On the debate concerning the printing of Kabbalistic texts in the<sup>16th<\/sup> century, see S. Assaf, \u201cLe-Fulmus al Hadpasat Sifre Qabbalah,\u201d in <em>Meqorot u-Mechqarim<\/em>, Jerusalem 1946, pp. 238\u2013246; Sonne, <em>Mi-Paulo ha-Revii ad Pius ha-Chamishi<\/em>, Jerusalem 1954, pp. 132\u2013136; A. Yaari, <em>*Studies in Hebrew Booklore*<\/em> [in Hebrew], Jerusalem 1958, pp. 216\u2013219; D. Tamar, <em>*Studies in the History of the Jewish People in Eretz Israel and in Italy* [ <\/em>Heb.]<em>, Jerusalem <\/em>1986, pp. 164\u2013165; G. Busi, <em>Mantova e la Qabbalah: Mantua and the Kabbalah<\/em>, Mantua\u2013Milan 2001.        <\/span>. Such an influence is found not only among the Italian Jews of the end of the XVI <sup> e <\/sup> and xvii <sup> e <\/sup> centuries, but also throughout the diaspora and as far as Eretz-Israel. How and why it was decided to print a work previously confined to a restricted circulation will be further discussed during our meeting today and I leave to my colleagues the task of investigating it. It suffices here to say that the decision was eventually taken. There had been serious concerns in some rabbinic circles concerning this disclosure of a secret lore The well-known <em>responsum <\/em> by Isaac De Lattes, included in the first volume of the Mantua <em>Zohar<\/em>, tries to address such a criticism.   <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"3\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"A few responsa supporting the printing of Kabbalistic texts are collected at the beginning of the Mantua edition of the Tiqqune ha-Zohar. They were written by Mosheh ben Mordekay Basola Tzarfati, who lived in Pesaro (dated February[!] 21, 1557, folios [2]r\u2013[3]r), Mosheh ben Avraham Provenzali of Mantua (2 Kislev [5]318 [October 25, 1557], c. [3]v\u2013[4]r), Yisrael ben Menachem Rovigo (c. [4]r), and Mosheh ben Yosef Bibi (c. [4]r). The first volume of the Sefer ha-Zohar contains the famous responsum by Yitzhaq Yehoshua ben Immanuel of Lattes, Pesaro, 1 Iyyar [5]218 (April 19, 1558), which defended the printing of the book.       \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-3\">3<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-3\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"3\">A few responsa supporting the printing of Kabbalistic texts are collected at the beginning of the Mantua edition of the <em>Tiqqune ha-Zohar. <\/em>They were written by Mosheh ben Mordekay Basola Tzarfati, who lived in Pesaro (dated February[!] 21, 1557, folios [2]<sup>r\u2013<\/sup>[3]<sup>r<\/sup>), Mosheh ben Avraham Provenzali of Mantua (2 Kislev [5]318 [October 25, 1557], c. [3]<sup>v\u2013<\/sup>[4]<sup>r<\/sup>), Yisrael ben Menachem Rovigo (c. [4]<sup>r<\/sup>), and Mosheh ben Yosef Bibi (c. [4]<sup>r<\/sup>). The first volume of <em>the Sefer ha-Zohar contains <\/em>the famous <em>responsum<\/em> by Yitzhaq Yehoshua ben Immanuel of Lattes, Pesaro, 1 Iyyar [5]218 (April 19, 1558), which defended the printing of the book.       <\/span>. One can accept or reject De Lattes\u2019 explanations but as soon the three volumes set was completed, and the Cremona edition was finished as well and started to be distributed, there was no way back. The <em>Zohar<\/em> was finding its way to the Jewish readership, from northern Africa to Poland, from Antwerp to Safed. Together with the Zohar, some other important kabbalistic texts were printed within the same project as well. In 1557, the <em> Tiqqunei ha-Zohar <\/em> had appeared, in 1562, the <em> Sefer Yetira <\/em> , was also printed, to mention only two of them However, the <em>Zohar<\/em> was by far the most influential single kabbalistic work to be diffused in printing and the one that made the difference in influencing future readership.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My aim in this short lecture of mine is to discuss an aspect of the whole printing project that has not been analyzed so far. To my mind, such a discussion will enable us to better understand the impact of the Mantua edition on Jewish identity. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s start with a few considerations on the place of <em> Zohar <\/em> in the context of the Jewish culture of the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century in the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a short yet seminal article written in Hebrew in 2001, Yehuda Liebes suggested that the <em>Zohar<\/em> is the result of a whole literary movement<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"4\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"Y. Liebes, \u201cHa-Zohar ke-Renesans\u201d, in  Daat  46 (2001), p. 5-11. The debate over the authorship of the Zohar dates back a very long time and is still ongoing. For an updated overview of the subject, see D. Abrams, *Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism*, Jerusalem-Los Angeles 2013; R. Meroz, \u201cThe Archaeology of the Zohar: Sifra Ditseni\u2019uta as a Sample Text,\u201d in Daat 82 (2016), pp. IX\u2013LXXXV.    \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-4\">4<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-4\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"4\">Y. Liebes, \u201cHa-Zohar ke-Renesans\u201d, in <em> Daat <\/em> 46 (2001), p. 5-11. The debate over the authorship of <em>the Zohar<\/em> dates back a very long time and is still ongoing. For an updated overview of the subject, see D. Abrams, <em>*Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory: Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the Study of Jewish Mysticism*<\/em>, Jerusalem-Los Angeles 2013; R. Meroz, \u201cThe Archaeology of the Zohar: <em>Sifra Ditseni\u2019uta<\/em> as a Sample Text,\u201d in <em>Daat<\/em> 82 (2016), pp. IX\u2013LXXXV.    <\/span>  a movement that developed from the<sup>mid-13th<\/sup> century through the early<sup>14th<\/sup> century in Castile. This movement aimed to foster a \u201cspiritual Renaissance of the Jewish religion\u201d following a long period of cultural stagnation. To support his thesis, Liebes draws a parallel with the Italian Renaissance: just as Dante and Petrarch ushered in an era of cultural innovation by breaking away from medieval culture and drawing on the classical heritage, the authors of <em>the Zohar<\/em>, in turn, drew upon the teachings of the Tannaitic masters and gave their work the form of a pseudo-epigraphic text.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fascinating insight into the most important mystical work of Jewish tradition has been almost completely neglected by recent scholarships, with the exception of an article published in 2005 by Moshe Idel.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"5\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" M. Idel, \u201cEuropean Cultural Renaissance and Jewish Mysticism\u201d (in Kabbalah. Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts,   13 [2005]), French translation in L. Kaennel and P. Gisel (eds.), *R\u00e9ceptions de la cabale*, Paris, L\u2019\u00e9clat, 2007, p.  11-55.\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-5\">5<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-5\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"5\"> M. Idel, \u201cEuropean Cultural Renaissance and Jewish Mysticism\u201d (in <em>Kabbalah. Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, <\/em>  13 [2005]), French translation in L. Kaennel and P. Gisel (eds.), <em>*R\u00e9ceptions de la cabale*<\/em>, Paris, L\u2019\u00e9clat, 2007, p.  11-55.<\/span>. Cabalistic literary production of the Jews of Castile in the last quarter of the 13th <sup> e <\/sup> century is described as an unprecedented explosion of mystical creativity. Idel as well, in this regard, speaks of a \u201cRenaissance of Kabbalah\u201d, which has at its core the Zoharic text. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As to the causes of this period of great innovation, Idel points to the context of the majority culture in Castile at that time. In particular, he understands Castilian Kabbalah, due to its \u201cparticularistic orientation\u201d, as a reaction to the universalistic trends of the Castilian court under Alfonso \u201cthe Learned\u201d. To him, \u201cforms of agon between different cultures created not only mimetic processes based on appropriation of conceptual structures, but also types of accelerations in a minority culture\u201d. As a consequence, Idel stresses the importance of the fact that the Kabbalistic development in Castile took place in \u201ca special period of time, which itself was described in Spanish culture as a Renaissance, the Alfonsine Renaissance\u201d. In spite of this interesting notation, Idel does not develop the parallel any further.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am convinced that :<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a) the <em>Zohar<\/em> is not simply a book, or a collection of scattered literary units, but the core of an overall open project shared by a circle of authors (and possibly by generations of authors), which was to lead to the creation of a Jewish mystical corpus. This corpus was conceived by its authors as a response to the Christian literary and theological corpus available in the Iberian Peninsula in the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century. . In particular, I see the corpus of texts collected and translated under the patronage of King Alfonso \u201cthe Learned\u201d as the most relevant Christian equivalent to the <em>Zohar<\/em>. Alfonso\u2019s project can be seen both as a starting point and as the model with which to compete.   <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"6\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" N. Roth, \u201cJewish Collaborators in Alfonso&#8217;s Scientific Work\u201d, in RI Burns (ed.), Emperor of Culture. Alfonso X the Learned of Castille and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance, Philadelphia 1990. \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-6\">6<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-6\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"6\"> N. Roth, \u201cJewish Collaborators in Alfonso&#8217;s Scientific Work\u201d, in RI Burns (ed.), Emperor of Culture. Alfonso X the Learned of Castille and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance, Philadelphia 1990. <\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">b) that the Zoharic mystical hermeneutics was partly framed within narrative models. The adoption of a literary structure as a tool for expressing a mystical message has to be seen as well against the cultural context of the time. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The project promoted by Alfonso \u201cthe Learned\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wide horizons of this undertaking are well known, as the contributions of Jewish scholars involved in this enterprise. As pointed out by Norman Roth <a href=\"#_ftn6\">6,<\/a> for instance, Jewish authors and translators (which mainly translated from Arabic into Castilian) gave a remarkable contribution both to the scientific culture of the time and to the development of the Spanish language. As stressed by Idel  <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"7\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" M. Idel, &#8220;European Cultural Renaissance and Jewish Mysticism&#8221;,  art. cit.  p. 35  sq  . \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-7\">7<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-7\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"7\"> <a>M. Idel, &#8220;European Cultural Renaissance and Jewish Mysticism&#8221;, <em> art. cit. <\/em> p. 35 <em> sq <\/em> . <\/a><\/span><a href=\"#_ftn7\"> [7] <\/a> there is no doubt that this activity \u201chad an impact on the Kabbalists\u2019 activity\u201d. Idel also pointed to the likely impact on Castilian Kabbalah of the magical and Hermetic texts introduced in Europe during the Alfonsine Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent scholarship has detected more direct influence of the Alfonsine culture in the literary production of authors close to the Zoharic circle. For instance, Sara Offenberg <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"8\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" S. Offenberg, \u201cIsaac Ibn Sahula and King Alfonso X: Possible Connections between the Book  Meshal Haqadmoni  and the  C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria  \u00bb, In  Arts and Social Sciences Journal  , 5 (2014), p. 1-7.\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-8\">8<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-8\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"8\"> S. Offenberg, \u201cIsaac Ibn Sahula and King Alfonso X: Possible Connections between the Book <em> Meshal Haqadmoni <\/em> and the <em> C\u00e1ntigas de Santa Maria <\/em> \u00bb, In <em> Arts and Social Sciences Journal <\/em> , 5 (2014), p. 1-7.<\/span>  demonstrated the impact of <em>the Cantiques de Sainte Marie<\/em> \u2014the \u201ccollection of artistic forms by<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"9\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" R. I. Burns, in *Emperor of Culture*, op. cit\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-9\">9<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-9\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"9\"> R. I. Burns, in <em>*Emperor of Culture*, op. cit<\/em><\/span>.\u201d\u2014which comprised more than four hundred lyrical and narrative poems of praise in honor of the Virgin Mary\u2014on the <em>*Meshal ha-Qadmoni*<\/em>, a rhymed prose narrative written by Isaac Ibn Sahula, a close associate of Moses de Le\u00f3n, who, as Hartley Lachter points out, \u201cmay even have been a member of the group of Kabbalists whom we may consider responsible for the writing of <em>the Zohar.\u201d<\/em><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"10\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" H. Lachter, \u201cSpreading Secrets: Kabbalah and Esotericism in Isaac Ibn Sahula&#8217;s  Meshal ha-Kadmoni  \u00bb, In  The Jewish Quarterly Review  , 100 (2010), p. 111-38\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-10\">10<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-10\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"10\"> H. Lachter, \u201cSpreading Secrets: Kabbalah and Esotericism in Isaac Ibn Sahula&#8217;s <em> Meshal ha-Kadmoni <\/em> \u00bb, In <em> The Jewish Quarterly Review <\/em> , 100 (2010), p. 111-38<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we shall see, Ibn Sahula\u2019s work is part of the Castilian Jewish Renaissance and plays a crucial role in understanding the intent of the authors of <em>the Zohar<\/em>. Indeed, the <em>Meshal ha-Qadmoni<\/em> can be viewed as an encyclopedic undertaking in its own right, whose ambition was to promote a Jewish Renaissance, following a long period of crisis in the Hebrew language and culture, by replacing the \u201cbooks of heretics, Greek sciences, and Arabic proverbs\u201d with a work written in Hebrew that contained the key to revealing the esoteric meaning of the \u201choly words.\u201d A similar attitude is also found in the <em>Zohar<\/em>, albeit with a different emphasis on the Sefirotic tradition.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What researchers have not yet fully analyzed is the fact that the <em>Meshal<\/em> and the <em>Zohar<\/em> were not merely influenced by their cultural context, nor did they simply assimilate themes that were beginning to circulate at that time, but are the result of a broader project intended to challenge contemporary Christian encyclopedic works by fostering a Jewish Renaissance based on the revelation of the \u201clost\u201d and complete esoteric meaning of the Torah.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Narrative structure<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gershom Scholem<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"11\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"G. Scholem,  The main currents of Jewish mysticism,  tr. Fr. MM Davy, Paris, Payot, 1960, p.   173.  \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-11\">11<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-11\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"11\">G. Scholem, <em> The main currents of Jewish mysticism, <\/em> tr. Fr. MM Davy, Paris, Payot, 1960, p.   173.  <\/span> had already spoken of <em> Zohar <\/em> as a &#8220;mystical novel&#8221; and recent studies developed this idea further by focusing on the literary setting of Zoharic narratives and homilies<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"12\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" Nde. See the work of Eliane Amado-L\u00e9vy-Valensi,  The poetics of the Zohar  , Paris, L&#8217;\u00c9lat, 1996, prefaced by Charles Mopsik, the French translator of  Zohar  , too soon gone. \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-12\">12<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-12\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"12\"> Nde. See the work of Eliane Amado-L\u00e9vy-Valensi, <em> The poetics of the Zohar <\/em> , Paris, L&#8217;\u00c9lat, 1996, prefaced by Charles Mopsik, the French translator of <em> Zohar <\/em> , too soon gone. <\/span>. Nathan Wolski for instance has pointed out the surprising fact that \u201cnot even once throughout its more than a thousand folio pages do we encounter the Companions in a traditional Jewish setting \u2013 the house of study or the house of praying\u201d . <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"13\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" N. Wolski, \u201cMystical Poetics: Narrative, Time and Exegesis in the  Zohar  \u00bb, In  Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History  28 (2010), p. 101-28. E. Fishbane, \u201cRepresentation and the Boundaries of Realism: Reading the Fantastic in Zoharic Fiction ,\u201d in *Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts*, 23 (2011), pp. 105\u201319, defines research on the narrative dimension of Zoharic literature as \u201ca stimulating new direction in the development of Zohar studies \u201d (p. 105). The same author, in his recent book, *The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar*, Oxford 2018, which focuses primarily on \u201cthe aesthetics of Zoharic creativity,\u201d expands on this insight by offering a detailed analysis of \u201cthe historical and comparative literary context in which the Zoharic narrative framework emerged\u201d (p. 336). His critical and aesthetic approach sheds new light on various aspects of the Zohar\u2019s \u201ctextual and folkloric milieu,\u201d but leaves aside the specific identity- and culture-based strategies that underlie the Zohar\u2019s enterprise.   \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-13\">13<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-13\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"13\"> N. Wolski, \u201cMystical Poetics: Narrative, Time and Exegesis in the <em> Zohar <\/em> \u00bb, In <em> Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History <\/em> 28 (2010), p. 101-28. E. Fishbane, \u201cRepresentation and the Boundaries of Realism: Reading the Fantastic in Zoharic Fiction ,\u201d in <em>*Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts*<\/em>, 23 (2011), pp. 105\u201319, defines research on the narrative dimension of Zoharic literature as \u201ca stimulating new direction in the development of <em>Zohar<\/em> studies \u201d (p. 105). The same author, in his recent book, <em>*The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar*<\/em>, Oxford 2018, which focuses primarily on \u201cthe aesthetics of Zoharic creativity,\u201d expands on this insight by offering a detailed analysis of \u201cthe historical and comparative literary context in which the Zoharic narrative framework emerged\u201d (p. 336). His critical and aesthetic approach sheds new light on various aspects of <em>the Zohar\u2019s<\/em> \u201ctextual and folkloric milieu,\u201d but leaves aside the specific identity- and culture-based strategies that underlie the <em>Zohar\u2019s<\/em> enterprise.   <\/span>&#8220;. They rather talk while walking on the way. \u201cThe <em>Zohar<\/em> is certainly the first Jewish work to celebrate the way or the journey as <em>the<\/em> primary locus for mystical knowledge\u201d. This aspect lead Melila Ellner-Eshed to define the Zohar as a kind of \u201cmystical epic\u201d   <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"14\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"Mr. Hellner Eshed, A River Flows from Eden. The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar , Stanford 2005. \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-14\">14<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-14\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"14\">Mr. Hellner Eshed, <em>A River Flows from Eden. The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar <\/em>, Stanford 2005. <\/span> &#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, those who have studied the <em> Zohar <\/em> did not note that the epic \/ narrative element is one of the keys and common characteristics of the encyclopedism of the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century. It plays a great role in the project of Alfonso, and in other great thinkers of the time, as for instance in Ramon Llull, a contemporary of Alfonso, and an author acquainted with Jewish mysticism. As shown by Mary Franklin-Brown, Llull, influenced by his \u201cearly apprenticeship in troubadour lyric\u201d, conveyed his cultural and theological program through narrative and visual exegetical tools.  <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"15\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"M. Franklin-Brown, Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age, Chicago-London 2012, p. 137  \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-15\">15<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-15\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"15\">M. Franklin-Brown, Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age, Chicago-London 2012, p. 137  <\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even more, the zoharic work <em><u> Lust zu <\/u> fabulieren,<\/em> as &#8220;desire to fabulate&#8221;, must be analyzed in the context of the growing interest, in the Jewish communities of the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century, for non-Hebrew secular romances and poems. As shown by Leviant  <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"16\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"C. Leviant (ed.), King Arthus. A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279, Syracuse-New York 2003 (originally in his Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature, New York 1969).  \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-16\">16<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-16\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"16\">C. Leviant (ed.), King Arthus. A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279, Syracuse-New York 2003 (originally in his Masterpieces of Hebrew Literature, New York 1969).  <\/span>,at that time, both the common folk and the rabbis \u201cfell victim of the charms of non-sacred literature\u201d. From the xii <sup> e <\/sup> century, one finds scholars like the Tossafist Samuel ben Meir who compares &#8220;the dialogues of the lovers of the Song of Songs to the ballads of the troubadours&#8221;, or exegetes like Isaac Ben Yehuda Halevi, who embellishes his interpretations of biblical passages with chivalrous motifs. This trend reached its peak in 1279, when a fragment of the history of King Arthur (with an interesting reference to the <em> &#8220;Book of the <\/em><em>Kesta del Sangraal <\/em> \u00bb\u05dc\u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5 \u05d3\u05d9\u05dc\u05d0 \u05e7\u05e9\u05d8\u05d0 \u05d3\u05d9\u05dc \u05e1\u05e0\u05d2\u05e8\u05d0\u05d0\u05dc) was translated into Hebrew. It is noteworthy that the translator justified his undertaking with the following words: \u201cThe reason for my translation was that sinners will learn the paths of repentance and bear in mind their end and will return to the Name\u201d.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, the <em>Zohar<\/em> scholarship has neglected the connection between Zoharic narrative strategies and contemporary literary culture. On the one hand, the Zoharic authors absorbed specific literary elements and strategies from the culture of their time and set them in a new narrative framework, so to give new meaning and relevance to them. Doing this, they created an original kind of mystical literature, capable of supplying the Jewish audience with a Hebrew form of epic narrative. On the other hand, by conveying their doctrines through this literary tool, they were able to transfer their theories from a profane dimension to a sacred one, providing them a new spiritual and metaphysical significance.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can now bring more on focus the assumption made by Yehudah Liebes we mentioned at the beginning. The <em>Zohar<\/em> can be compared to the Italian Renaissance, as far as it conveys a larger project, aimed at stirring Jewish cultural resistance against Christian cultural and theological models. A group of Jewish intellectuals, who were well aware of what was going on in contemporary Christian elite culture in the Iberian Peninsula, shaped a response that was not only \u201cmimetic\u201d but represented also a kind \u201cacceleration\u201d as Idel has put it.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In doing this, the <em>Zohar<\/em> kabbalists where aiming at an identarian strategy, in the same way Italian Humanistic ideals and, later, Italian Renaissance, represented an identarian answer to the political and cultural supremacy of the \u201cbarbarians\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By defining the <em>Zohar<\/em> a Renaissance-like phenomenon, we gain a new perspective on the Zohar Mantuan edition as well and we can fully appreciate the work of Mantuan and Cremona editors and typographers as an identarian project.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will follow here the path laid out by Elizabeth Eisenstein in her seminal work, * <em>The Printing Press as an Agent of Change<\/em> *, first published in 1979 <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"17\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"(E. Eisenstein, *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe*, 2 vols., Cambridge 1979\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-17\">17<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-17\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"17\">(E. Eisenstein, *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe*, 2 vols., Cambridge 1979<\/span> ). I am well aware of the scholarly debate the book has generated, and it is not my intention here to discuss aspects of Eisenstein&#8217;s work with which I disagree. However, I believe Eisenstein is fundamentally correct in defining the Renaissance as a process &#8220;inaugurated in the age of scribes and perpetuated in the age of printers.&#8221; What distinguishes the Italian Renaissance of the <sup>15th and<\/sup> <sup>16th<\/sup> centuries from earlier &#8220;Renaissances,&#8221; for example, that of the <sup>12th<\/sup> century, is that the latter were confined to the world of manuscripts, while the former was perpetuated by the invention of typography. Obviously, the Italian Renaissance was not limited to printing, but it goes without saying that, without printed books, the process initiated by humanists like Petrarch would not have had the lasting influence it had on Western civilization.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that the <em>Zohar<\/em> Renaissance can be termed in exactly the same way. She was born in the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century in Castile and continued in the 16th <sup> e <\/sup> century in Italy thanks to the printing press. It is such a two-steps development that gives to the project is full-fletched status of a Jewish-Renaissance. Neither the company of the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century nor the printing press of the 16th <sup> e <\/sup> century, taken separately, could not have achieved such relevance. To put it in different words, the Mantuan (and the Cremona) <em>Zohar<\/em> are \u201c<em>old wine in new vessel<\/em>\u201d. But it is only in this combination that we can fully appreciate the taste of a daring mystical utopia.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRabbi Meir said: Do not look at the vessel, but rather at what it contains; there may be a new vessel filled with aged wine, or an old vessel in which there is not even new [wine].&#8221; (Avot 4:27). Let us ignore Rabbi Meir\u2019s advice for a moment and look at the vessel. The printing of the <em>Zohar<\/em> has changed dramatically the audience of the work. No matter how refined and intelligent the project of the Castilian kabbalists was, being confined to manuscript dissemination greatly hindered its diffusion. As we learn from the preface by Emmanuel de Corropoli, in his <em> haqdamat ha-magiah <\/em> , the manuscripts of <em> Zohar <\/em> were quite rare in Italy in the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> century and could only be obtained at the cost of very great efforts from their jealous owners    <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"18\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\" In the preface to the first volume of the Mantuan edition of the Zohar (fol. [4]  r  ), the editor &#8211; Immanuel ben Gavriel de Corropoli of the Gallichi family &#8211; describes his work of textual editing, for which he used, among others, manuscripts owned by Yehudah ben Mosheh Blanis and Elyaqim ben Yeshayah from Macerata, and an \u201cancient\u201d codex brought from Safed. \"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-18\">18<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-18\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"18\"> In the preface to the first volume of the Mantuan edition of the Zohar (fol. [4] <sup> r <\/sup> ), the editor &#8211; Immanuel ben Gavriel de Corropoli of the Gallichi family &#8211; describes his work of textual editing, for which he used, among others, manuscripts owned by Yehudah ben Mosheh Blanis and Elyaqim ben Yeshayah from Macerata, and an \u201cancient\u201d codex brought from Safed. <\/span>&#8230; As we have seen, Liebes has brilliantly stressed the Renaissance-like import of the <em>Zohar<\/em>. But the fact that such an assessment has first surfaced in a scholarly essay published in 2001, shows that in its original setting, Zoharic lore was only potentially an influent identitarian project. In order to really affect a sizable portion of the Jewish world, it lacked the necessary penetration.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mantua Kabalistic School and the <em>Zohar<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mantua itself offers us a good example of this situation. Until the second half of the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> century, interest in cabalistic texts was relatively low among the Jews of Mantua <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--expands-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"19\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  title=\"I underlined the development of Cabal studies in Mantua in the xvi  e  and xvii  e  centuries in my book  Mantova e la qabalah  .\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-19\">19<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-0000000000002f830000000000000000_23968-19\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"19\">I underlined the development of Cabal studies in Mantua in the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> and xvii <sup> e <\/sup> centuries in my book <em> Mantova e la qabalah <\/em> .<\/span> . We know that Yehudah Hayyat had composed here his influential commentary on <em>Ma\u2018arekhet ha-Elohut<\/em>, being requested to do this by Jacob Jabez, who had reached Mantua after being exiled from Spain and later from Portugal. However, at the eve of the printing of the <em>Zohar<\/em> it didn\u2019t exist in Mantua a kabbalistic school. The editors and the printers who produced the <em>Zohar<\/em> edition came from far away. Immanuel de Corropoli, of the Gallichi family, was born in central Italy. Corropoli is a town in Abruzzo; to the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> century, when the Aquaviva family reigned. Immanuel of Benevento came from the town in Campania, Southern Italy, while Isaac de Lattes was of Proven\u00e7al origin Among the people involved in the printing project, only Ya\u2018aqov of Gazzuolo seems to have been linked to the Mantua region, Gazzuolo being located some 20 km away from Mantua itself. Abraham of Modena, the son-in-law of Isaac de Lattes, who acted as editor and proof-reader moved from Bologna to Mantua just to supervise the printing of the kabbalistic works. In his letters to his father-in-law, who resided in Pesaro, he has left us with a vivid description of the material difficulties of his task: Avraham complains about the bad food and the exhausting rhythm of work in a hostile atmosphere where quite a few co-religionists openly criticized the project. During this period Immanuel of Benevento died and Immanuel of Corropoli probably departed from Mantua, leaving Avraham to conclude their work. We know that in 1561, as soon as the printing of the <em>Zohar<\/em> was finished, he returned to Bologna. The subsequent texts were printed by Ya\u2019aqov of Gazzuolo alone, who himself then left Mantua in 1563 to seek his fortune in Venice. Only after the printing of the <em>Zohar<\/em> and is spreading throughout Italy, Mantua became a centre of kabbalistic learning, and played a pivotal role in this domain, as we know, for instance, from the activity of rabbi Moses Zacuto.              <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Amsterdam, Zacuto studied in Poland before settling in Verona and then in Venice, where he has lived for more than 25 years. He contributed significantly to the publication of numerous Kabbalistic texts by the Hebrew printing houses of Venice and gathered a circle of prominent disciples around him. When he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Mantua in 1673, Zacuto brought with him his remarkable library, assembled during his years in Venice, which contained all the major works of Lurianic Kabbalah, as well as a vast collection of magical texts. It was probably in Mantua that he wrote his monumental commentary on <em>the Zohar<\/em>. A leading theorist on the devotional trends of Jewish mysticism, Zacuto compiled numerous anthologies of <em>tiqqunim<\/em> (lit. \u201crestorations\u201d), or liturgical manuals, based on Kabbalah. It was also in Mantua that he founded a congregation known as the <em>Chadashim l\u2019-Beqarim<\/em>, which brought together some of the city\u2019s most important rabbis and scholars and remained active until the Emancipation at the end of<sup>the 18th<\/sup> century. From Casale Monferrato and Reggio Emilia, Venice and Alessandria, the most eminent Kabbalists turned to Zacuto for bibliographic advice and study guidelines, or to share their doubts and experiences. His correspondence, seemingly far removed from the dominant cultural current in Europe, can also be read as a partial analytical commentary on late Kabbalah in Italy and demonstrates the extent to which, by the end of the<sup>17th<\/sup> century, Judaism was completely imbued with the doctrines of Kabbalah, and in particular with Zoharic mysticism.       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the arrival of Zacuto, Mantua became the main mystical center in Italy, a role that the city retained until the end of the 18th century. <sup> e <\/sup> century. As demonstrated by the large number of manuscripts still preserved in the city, many little kabbalistic circles, where Zacuto\u2019s works were painstakingly copied and annotated, were active throughout this period. In some cases, we even possess notebooks referring to Zacuto\u2019s lessons in Mantua and indicating exact dates with summaries of the subjects discussed and of the objections raised. The scores of manuscripts written in Mantua in these years provided the basis for a rich textual tradition. Repeatedly copied, they travelled as far as Central and Eastern Europe. Some of the earliest editions of cabalistic texts printed in distant Poland in the late 18th century <sup> e <\/sup> century have been drawn from manuscripts of the Mantua school.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A Jewish Renaissance made true<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all know how the <em>Zohar<\/em> stresses the secret status of kabbalistic teachings. At the same time, we also know that this very secrecy became popular thanks to the impact of printing. Confronted with such a diffusion of the work, we must ask ourselves if the <em>Zohar<\/em> promoted its own success. I mean, if it had qualities other works didn\u2019t have. I am convinced that its narrative frame, and the its focus on the charismatic personality of Shimon bar Yochai, greatly contributed to its diffusion. Printing has changed the status of the <em>Zohar<\/em> but in so doing has exploited qualities inherent to the book. As we have seen, from its very conception the <em>Zohar<\/em> was meant to be the trigger of a Jewish Renaissance. It was shaped by a Renaissance-like circle, and focused on a Renaissance-like narrative, the academy of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai being the symbol of a spiritual renewal with clear Messianic overtones.       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The editors of the Mantua <em>Zohar<\/em> were well aware of the decisive role of printing as a promoter of the inborn messianism of the work. Isaac de Lattes links the spreading of the <em>Zohar<\/em> to the coming of the Messianic salvation. As the messianic time is approaching \u2013 he writes in his <em>responsum<\/em> &#8211; the secrets of the Torah not only can be revealed to a larger readership. 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It should be remembered that the Zoharic Renaissance was not a scholarly pastime, but had a crucial Messianic purpose, clearly emphasized by its editors in the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> century. Letterpress distribution fulfills the original objectives of the <em> Zohar <\/em> , spreading the spiritual awakening foreseen by the Castilian circle of the xiii <sup> e <\/sup> century. A Messianic awakening is per se a \u201crescue of the many\u201d. The collective mission encouraged by the <em> Zohar <\/em> needed a proper tool to be implemented and she found it in the middle of the xvi <sup> e <\/sup> century in Italy. We started our short journey in Castile and are now back in Mantua. Almost three centuries later and some 2000 kilometres away, the <em>Zohar<\/em> Renaissance conceived in Castile is now being accomplished in Mantua.     <\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p 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