Or ne‘erav (Pleasant Light)
The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra1 in section Naso.2
It was taught:
Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are revealed here, the comrades of the ‘Idra were hidden away for the world-to-come, and they were removed from this world.
It is proper. . . .
[This] is…
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