The two Idrot ("Assemblies") are the dramatic and doctrinal summit of the Zohar. In both, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai gathers the companions and discloses the configuration of the partzufim, the "countenances" of the Godhead, anatomized limb by limb, from the skull and the dew through the eyes, the nose, the ears, and the beard, to the union of male and female and the building of Adam. The Idra Rabba (the Greater Assembly, from parashat Naso) is the fuller exposition; the Idra Zuta (the Lesser Assembly, from parashat Ha'azinu) is its condensation, delivered as Rabbi Shimon departs the world, and closes with his death.
This is the first complete public-domain English of both Assemblies, printed together. It is translated from the ground up out of the bare Aramaic, and it consults exactly one commentary, named: the Perush ha-Sulam of Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag (1945). The bare text is rendered on its own terms; the Lurianic reading sits beside it in a set-off Notes apparatus, marked as Ashlag's and never merged into the translation. Published in The Substrate Archive series by Threshold Press.