 The investigation concerning valid modes of interpreting the Torah leads Del Medigo to discuss Kabbalistic interpretations, and to present his general stand concerning the Kabbalistic trend in Judaism (see Bland 1991). The majority of Jewish sages and Talmudists, Del Medigo argues (322–323), rejected the Kabbalistic interpretations and were drawn instead to philosophy and rational speculation. Del Medigo rejects the traditional attribution of Sefer ha-Zohar, the authoritative Kabbalistic work, to Shim’on Bar Yohay, and adds other arguments opposing the Kabbalistic-mystical interpretation of the Torah. Del Medigo’s criticism of the Kabbalah appears in his other works as well, for instance in his Hebrew version of the commentary on De substantia orbis (Del Medigo 1485: f. 41; Ross 1984: 20). Yet according to Ross, more than the Kabbalah itself, it was the Christian Kabbalah that Del Medigo was attacking in the Beḥinat ha-Dat (Ross 1984: 13).