Melila Hellner-Eshed has been a Professor of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and is Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is the author of A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar (Stanford, 2009).

Part One, Chapter 1: Introduction to the Idra Rabba

Part One, Chapter 2: The Language of Divine Faces

Part One, Chapter 3: The Gaze

Part One, Chapter 4: Reflections on Ze'eir Anpin

Part One, Chapter 5: Literature, Mysticism, Praxis

Part One, Chapter 6: Overarching Themes in the Idra Rabba

Part One, Chapter 7: What Is the Idra Rabba Trying to Communicate?

Part Two, Chapter 8: Entering the Idra Rabba

Part Two, Chapter 9: The Kings of Edom: The First Appearance

Part Two, Chapter 10: Arikih Anpin: Origins

Part Two, Chapter 11: Arikh Anpin: Features of the Face

Part Two, Chapter 12: Arraying Arikh Anpin's Beard

Part Two, Chapter 13: The Kings of Edom: The Second Appearance

Part Two, Chapter 14: Ze'eir Anpin Comes into Being

Part Two, Chapter 15: Ze'eir Anpin's Head and Its Features

Part Two, Chapter 16: The Tiqqunim of Ze'eir Anpin: The Language of Flowing Bounty

Part Two, Chapter 17: The Ancient of Ancients and Ze'eir Anpin: All Is One

Part Two, Chapter 18: Forming the Male and Female Body

Part Two, Chapter 19: The Kings of Edom: The Third Appearance

Part Two, Chapter 20: Separation and Coupling

Part Two, Chapter 21: Sweetening Judgment

Part Two, Chapter 22: Emerging from the Idra Rabba