from kotzk blog
Sunday, 3 July 2016
087) MYSTERIES BEHIND THE ORIGINS OF THE ZOHAR:
INTRODUCTION:
Who wrote the great kabbalistic work known as the Zohar?[1]
The short simple answer is: it was Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai[2], who lived during the 2nd century.
According to many, he wrote down the Zohar which had hitherto been an oral tradition dating back to the biblical period. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai thus redacted the Zohar at about the same time as Rabbi Yehudah haNasi redacted the Mishna.[3]
But there are many Torah scholars who take a different view.
THE CONTROVERSY:
The problem is that the first sections of the Zohar only emerged in Spain as late as the 1200’s.[4]
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https://www.kotzkblog.com/2016/07/87-mysteries-behind-origins-of-zohar.html