ZOHAR ONLINE Complete Zohar text

Source transparency

Source Documentation

Zohar Online keeps public reading pages clean by using technical layer names, while this page records provenance, attribution, Mantua edition context, and editorial responsibility.

Public source model

What a text layer means

A text layer identifies the kind of Hebrew-Aramaic record shown on a reading page. It is not a claim of ownership over the Zohar itself, and it is not a hidden technical dependency. When a page shows parallel columns, each layer keeps its own segmentation and reference form.

Unpointed Text (The Mantua Edition 1818) means a base Hebrew-Aramaic layer prepared from public unpointed source records and checked against a Mantua-style reference frame. Pointed Text (Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013) means the vocalized reading layer used for vowel-pointed Hebrew-Aramaic presentation, reading support, segmentation audit, and editorial alignment review for Sefer ha-Zohar. Zohar Chadash and Tikkunei reading pages use only the labels Zohar Chadash: Pointed Text and Tikkunei: Pointed Text, without assigning those layers to a specific printed edition.

Source records are used as textual witnesses. The editorial workflow may collect, normalize, segment, compare, preserve variants, correct obvious transfer issues, and prepare a stable public reading model while keeping each source's license and provenance visible in technical documentation.

The public edition is prepared as an independent editorial layer for navigation, citation, comparison, and future translation work. Public records and facsimile witnesses support the Zohar Online reference model; the resulting presentation is organized under this site's own stable URLs, segment markers, metadata, and editorial policy.

Mantua reference edition

Why the Mantua structure matters

The Mantua printing of Sefer ha-Zohar in the sixteenth century became one of the major printed reference forms for the Zohar corpus. Its volume and daf structure gives readers, researchers, and later editors a shared map for locating passages across printed and digital editions.

Zohar Online uses the Mantua-style reference frame as a public navigation and citation structure. The goal is to keep the historical reference map visible while the textual layers are prepared, reviewed, compared, and improved for a modern digital edition.

Editorial preparation

How public sources become a Zohar Online reading layer

A public source may provide a text, a scan, a pagination clue, a corrected reading, or a segmentation pattern. Zohar Online evaluates those materials as evidence and prepares a distinct public reading structure with its own stable URLs, labels, metadata, and documentation.

When a source differs from another source, the difference is not hidden. The site can show parallel layers, preserve a different segmentation, leave a layer empty where no confirmed correspondence exists, or document the editorial reason for a later correction.

Public-use records

Source links and rights notices

These links point to the public record, export, license, or use notice used to document provenance. They are listed for transparency, attribution, and source-specific compliance.

Unpointed corpus

Unpointed Text (The Mantua Edition 1818)

Used as the public unpointed Hebrew-Aramaic source layer for base text comparison, natural segmentation review, and Mantua-style reference checking. The public source record is Wikisource, where the Zohar Part I page is listed under the Hebrew title Zohar Part I and categorized as unpointed Zohar text. Public record: Zohar Part I source page . Use notice: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 and Wikimedia Terms of Use .

Pointed corpus

Pointed Text (Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013)

Used as the pointed Hebrew-Aramaic reading layer for vowel-pointed presentation, reading support, segmentation audit, and editorial alignment review. The National Library of Israel record identifies the source as Sefer ha-Zohar menukad, published in Israel by an unknown publisher, dated Hebrew year 5773 / 2013, with system number 990035741170205171. NLI record: Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013 . The NLI use notice records prohibition of copying and states that the item may be subject to copyright and/or agreement terms. Project license status: unknown. Sefaria export records may also be used for comparison where available: Sefaria-Export repository . Sefaria rights notice: Sefaria Export license statement , which records that each text version carries its own license field, including public domain, CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or other source-specific notices.

Printed witness

HebrewBooks.org facsimile records

Used as public facsimile witnesses for printed-page verification, Mantua pagination comparison, and historical edition context. Public records: Mantua Zohar record 42423 and Zohar record 44437. These facsimile records support textual review and citation checking; Zohar Online's public reading layer remains governed by its own editorial documentation and by each source record's applicable notice.

Provenance

Public layer names

Reading pages use short technical labels instead of institutional source names.

Integrity

No forced matching

Different source segmentations are preserved instead of being forced into one shape.

Legal clarity

Source-specific notices

Each public source keeps its own attribution, license, and use context in documentation.