Sava de-Mishpatimסבא דמשפטים

"The Old Man of Mishpatim": a beggar-sage who seems a fool interrogates the companions and unfolds the Zohar's deepest teaching on gilgul — souls revolving through bodies, the widowed soul, the levirate mystery — inside a parable of a beautiful maiden in a palace who reveals her face only to her lover: the Torah herself, flirting through the text's veils. The Zohar's masterpiece of frame-story.