After fifteen years of work, Margalya Press is pleased to announce that the six-volume English translation of Tiqqunei ha-Zohar has gone to print. This bilingual edition — Aramaic and English on facing pages — is the first complete English translation of Tiqqunei ha-Zohar. Printing is underway now, with delivery expected in October or November 2026. Only 500 sets are being produced in this first run, and 350 remain available for pre-order.
About the Translation
David Solomon, Managing Editor at Margalya Press, spent a decade translating and annotating Tiqqunei ha-Zohar — a foundational and notoriously difficult work of Jewish mysticism — to make it accessible to English-speaking readers for the first time. Our team then spent a further five years turning that translation into a finished publication.
A seventh volume, containing David's extensive annotations, endnotes, and translator's commentary, is still in production and will follow separately.
Design and Production
Turning the translation into a publication — both as a text and as an object — involved designing a presentational layout, developing and refining the bilingual format, typesetting the Aramaic and English, checking references and transliterations, and editing and proofreading thousands of pages, with repeated review to ensure the English and Aramaic align precisely.
Traditionally, Zoharic texts are printed in dense blocks. In the Margalya Press Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, the Aramaic has instead been rendered into short, poetic lines, with the English translation mirroring its structure phrase by phrase on the facing page. This makes it far easier to move between the original text and its translation, and reveals the rhythm and structure of the Aramaic itself — something difficult to see in the traditional presentation.
Availability
The six bilingual volumes are currently being printed, with delivery expected in October or November 2026; pre-orders will be fulfilled on arrival. Only 500 sets are being produced, and just 350 remain available. The seventh volume — David's annotations, notes, and reference material on the ideas, themes, and sources embedded in the text — will follow separately.