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 means a base Hebrew-Aramaic layer prepared from public unpointed source records. Pointed Text means an editorial reading layer with vowel points, punctuation, normalized spacing, or reading support where such records are available. These are public technical labels; institutional source names remain in documentation and metadata.

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 The goal is to keep the historical reference map visible while the textual layers are prepared, reviewed, compared, and improved for a modern digital edition.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.

Pointed corpus

Sefaria Export records

Used where available as pointed or normalized Hebrew-Aramaic records for comparison, reading support, segmentation audit, and editorial alignment review. Public export: Sefaria-Export repository . 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.