Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leon Jaroff. Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles
Jewish mysticism dates far back into antiquity, but the Kabbalah ("received" teachings) crystallized with the Zohar, the 13th century masterpiece set down in ancient Aramaic by the Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded in its story lines were the keys to unlock the Hebrew Bible--and hence all existence. Whereas standard rabbinic Judaism sometimes seems to look backward to God's most intimate interactions with his chosen people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate...
...DIED. LEON FORREST, 60, ambitious novelist whose stream-of-consciousness works explored black history; of cancer; in Evanston, Ill. Forrest traversed generations to examine slavery in The Bloodworth Orphans; in his masterwork, Divine Days, he devoted 1,138 pages to a week on Chicago's South Side...
...Leon Jaroff...
...Unfortunately, when you're covering a story like this you descend on a town like a small army," said Daniel Leon, a producer for ABC News...