[Avodah] primitive concepts and missing letters

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:05:44PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: If you read Ramban on humash he anticipates the zohar on several things.
: I'm guessing that roke'ach had access to a "proto-zohar."
: Or iow certain aspects of the Zohar wew not new.

Oviously. The first generations who accepted it as authentic must have
seen ideas that were already familiar to them. Whether from an oral
pre-published version of the Zohar or some more skeptical theory about
the origins. There is no way it could have gained currency otherwise.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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