[Avodah] When was the Zohar Written?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:24:28PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
> R. Avraham Yari in his sefer Toldos Chag Simchas Torah comes to some  
> interesting conclusions about when the Zohar was actually written.  His 
> conclusions are based on when the name Simchas Torah was first used to 
> designate the second day of Shemini Atzeres...

It doesn't rule out the Yavetz's position (in Mitpachas Soferim) that
the Zohar started with Rashbi but underwent accretion with time.

See
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2008/05/lag-ba-omer-and-upsherins-in-recent.html
by R' Eliezer Brodt, which has a section on R' Tuvia Freund's Moadim
leSimchah's discussion of the Zohar.

http://www.bhol.co.il/forum/topic1.asp?whichpage=1&topic_id=2087803
and
http://ishimshitos.blogspot.com/2008/05/reactions-to-yaavetzs-mitpachat-seforim.html
(reduced to <http://bit.ly/aCoYHf>), a survey of responses.

In any case, if the book wasn't published and mass produced, of
course neologisms would creep in. Look at all the shinui girsa'os
in the Y-mi just because it was less frequently published and checked
than the Bavli.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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