Middle AgesIdeas & Belief The Zohar and Kabbalah c. 1285Notable The Zohar, a mystical commentary on the Torah, circulates in Castile, largely the work of Moses de Leon. It becomes the central text of Kabbalah. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Potter's wheel → The wheel → Spoke-wheeled chariot → Hittite Empire → Iron Age begins → Kingdoms of Israel and Judah → Solomon's First Temple → Fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile → Hebrew Bible and monotheism → The Zohar and Kabbalah Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comKabbala (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookGershom ScholemMajor Trends in Jewish Mysticism ↗Editor's pickBookJoseph DanKabbalah: A Very Short Introduction ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeZohar Kabbalah history explained ↗Editor's pick