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From
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/l9ckm4s" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/l9ckm4s</a><br><br>
<font size=3>You can read or download Dr. Marc B. Shapiro's article in
the new issue of Milin Havivin
<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B9qDT_J6e1NHZjFiOTIzMDUtNDg0Zi00NTY3LWJhYjItOGViZDBmMzMxNWQ2&hl=en_US">
here</a>. The article is called "Is There An Obligation To Believe
that the Zohar Was Written By Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai?". While
I thought the question was settled years ago
(<a href="http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2007/01/r-zev-leff-question-for-is-person-who.html">
see here</a>) and subsequently had to reconsider
(<a href="http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/01/dayanim-in-brown-suits-and-kabbalah.html">
here</a>) you can read what Shapiro has to say in his interesting
article. <Snip><br><br>
Once can also read some classic works on the question of the Zohar's
authenticity:<br><br>
R. Elijah Del Medigo - Bechinas Ha-das
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/9403">here</a><br>
Yaavetz - Mitpachas Sefarim
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/33319">here</a><br>
R. Moshe Kunitz - Ben Yochai
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/5706">here</a><br>
Shir Rapoport - Nachalas Yehuda
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/34147">here</a><br>
R. Leone Modena - Ari Nohem
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/23812">here</a><br>
Shadal - Vikuach al Chochmas ha-Zohar, etc.
<a href="http://www.seforimonline.org/unsorted/%d7%95%d7%99%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%97%20%d7%a2%d7%9c%20%d7%97%d7%9b%d7%9e%d7%aa%20%d7%94%d7%a7%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%94.pdf">
link</a><br>
R. Elia Benamozegh - Ta'am Le-shad
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/22067">here</a><br>
R. Eliyahu Nissim - Ana Kesil
<a href="http://www.otzar.org/wotzar/Book.aspx?103643&&lang=eng&lang=eng">
here</a><br>
R. Shlomo b"r Eliyahu Nissim - Aderes Eliyahu
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/20223">here</a><br>
R. Moshe Yisrael Hazzan - Shearis Ha-nachalah
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/20471">here</a><br>
R. David Luria - Kadmus Sefer Ha-zohar
<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/34758">here</a><br><br>
The above list is not meant to be exhaustive.<br><br>
The entire issue of Milin Havivin 5 can be downloaded
<a href="http://www.yctorah.org/content/blogsection/8/53/">here</a>.
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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