According to the Ethiopian Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, 1, 454 tonnes of fish are landed each year at Bahir Dar, which the department estimates is 15 % of its sustainable amount.

::"... And we have heard that a book had already been written for them, which they call Bahir, that is ' bright ' but no light shines through it.

Bahir or Sefer HaBahir ס ֵ פ ֶ ר ה ַ ב ָּ ה ִ יר ( Hebrew, " Book of the Brightness ") is an anonymous mystical work, attributed to a 1st century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah ( a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai ) because it begins with the words, " R. Nehunya ben HaKanah said ".

* 1331-Earliest commentary on The Bahir is written by Rabbi Meir ben Shalom Abi-Sahula, a disciple of Shlomo ben Aderet ( Rashba ), and it is published anonymously under the title Or HaGanuz.

* End of 15th century-The Bahir is translated into Latin by Flavius Mitridates but this translation is wordy and not useful.

* 1706-The Bahir is published in Berlin together with Mayan HaChakhmah.

* 1784-The Bahir is published in Sklav and Koretz.

* 1800-The Bahir is published in Lvov.

* 1830-The Bahir is published in Lvov.

* 1849-The Bahir is published in unknown place as part of Chamishah Chumshey Kabbalah.

* 1865-The Bahir is published in Lvov.

* 1883-The Bahir is published in Vilna.

* 1913-The Bahir is published in Vilna.

* 1951-The Bahir is published in Jerusalem.

It is in the Bahir that we find the first discussion of the Kabbalistic concept of Sefirot as divine attributes and powers emanating from God.

The world, according to the " Bahir ," is not the product of an act of creation.

Bahir Dar ( Amharic: ባሕር ዳር " sea shore ") is a city in north-western Ethiopia.

Administratively, Bahir Dar is a Special Zone, a designation in between a chartered city ( astedader akabibi, a first-tier division, like a kilil ) such as Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, and cities like Debre Marqos and Dessie, which are organized as districts ( woredas ).

Bahir Dar is one of the leading tourist destinations in Ethiopia, with a variety of attractions in the nearby Lake Tana and Blue Nile river.

Bahir Dar is situated on the southern shore of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile ( or Abay ), in what was previously the Gojjam province.

The most common and convenient way of traveling in Bahir Dar is cycling.

Bahir Dar's origins date to at least the sixteenth or seventeenth century ; Pedro Páez is credited with erecting several buildings in this city, one of which is " a solid, two-storey stone structure, with an outside staircase " and can be seen in the compound of the present-day Giyorgis church.

* c. 1174-The Bahir was published by the Provence school of Kabbalists and was circulated to a limited audience in manuscript form.

One of the most accurate manuscripts of the final form of Sefer Bahir was written in 1331 by Meir ben Solomon Abi-Sahula ; his commentary on the Bahir was anonymously published as Or HaGanuz, " The Hidden Light ".

As Philip Briggs notes, Bahir Dar " is not only one of the largest towns in Ethiopia, but also one of the fastest growing -- the western outskirts have visibly expanded since the first edition of this guide was published in 1994.

A ferry service links Bahir Dar with Gorgora via Dek Island and various lakeshore villages.

Gojjam was divided in to western and eastern portions during the time of the Derg military regime, with Debre Marqos remaining the capital of East Gojjam while Bahir Dar became the capital of West Gojjam.

Ethiopian Airlines operates daily flights between Bahir Dar and the capital as well as with Gondar to the northwest.

On 3 – 4 March 1990, the TLA abandoned Bahir Dar in disarray, blowing up the nearby bridge with several hundred soldiers which stopped the TPLF / EPRDF forces from occupying the city.

The Bahir states, " What is the fourth ( utterance ): The fourth is the righteousness of God, His mercies and kindness with the entire world.

Urban areas in this ecoregion include: Ethiopia's capital city and Africa's fourth largest city Addis Ababa, the Amhara Region capital Bahir Dar with its island monasteries on Lake Tana, the old walled city of Harar, the spa town of Ambo, Asella in the Arsi Zone, the trekking centre of Dodola, the lakeside Debre Zeyit, the largest city in the southwest Jimma, the market town of Nekemte, and the capital of the Tigray region, Mek ' ele.

The Bahir assumes the form of an exegetic midrash on the first chapters of Genesis.

No 3: north from Addis Ababa across the Blue Nile at Dejen and again at Bahir Dar east around Lake Tana 979 km via Gondar and Aksum to Adwa.

The Zohar draws upon early mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Bahir, and the early medieval writings of the Hasidei Ashkenaz.

In the 13th century, * Meir ben Simon of Narbonne wrote an epistle ( included in Milhhemet Mitzvah ) against early Kabbalists, singled out Sefer Bahir, rejecting the attribution of its authorship to the tanna R. Nehhunya ben ha-Kanah and describing some of its content as follow -

* September 15 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737-260, strikes a flock of speckled pigeons during takeoff from Bahir Dar Airport at Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

* Some Rift Valley lakes, such as Lake Abijatta, Lake Chew Bahir, Lake Shala, Lake Chamo, and Lake Awasa.

Some of the Catholic churches he designed are still standing, most importantly in the area of Bahir Dar and Gondar, which influenced Ethiopian architecture for the rest of the 17th century.

Kabbalists ascribed authorship of the Bahir to R. Nehunya, a rabbi of the Mishnaic era, who lived around 100 CE.

Medieval Kabbalists write that the Bahir did not come down to them as a unified book, but rather in pieces found in scattered scrolls and booklets.

However, modern scholars of Kabbalah now hold that at least part of the Bahir was an adaptation of an older work, the Sefer Raza Rabba.

Scholar Ronit Meroz argues that elements in the Bahir date back to 10th century Babylonia, as witnessed by the acceptance of the Babylonian system of vowel points, which later fell into disuse, while other elements were written in 12th century Provence.

Many scholars of Kabbalah hold that the Bahir adds gnostic elements to the older work.

* Kabbalists believe that oral tradition of The Bahir goes back to the 1st century CE.