What is the zohar? Realy mean?

Question

I've been trying to find out it's true meaning, Do you know of some web sites?

Answer 1

Didnt they made a movie about him? - "Dont mess with Zohar"

Answer 2

If you accept Gershom Scholem's view of the Zohar, then it is one of the most important pieces of pseudoepigraphica out there, that is, works attributed by their authors to earlier times and/or writers.

In this case it is a mystical commentary on the Torah, which was published in 13th Century Spain (under the Moors if I'm not mistaken) but attributed to a second century Rabbi named Shimon bar Yohai.  

There is some evidence that the traditions -- or most of them -- which were published in the Zohar predate it by a long time, possibly dating back to the second century or before.  Unfortunately after the war which resulted in the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, Jews were seen as traitors to the Roman Empire, and while the study of books was very important to them, books cost money, and in this case it is highly unlikely that any such books would have survived in written form both because of the money available for books in those days and because this tradition, in common with many, emphasizes direct transmission from the teacher.

Calling it a forgery is simplistic.  As it exists today it is most likely from Spain ca 1200-1290.  But it is a text which with a reasonable Rabbi guiding you can lead you to a new understanding of the Torah.

Many books and teachings are accessible to us today because people who could afford to wrote them down from memory and attributed them to older teachers.  Sometimes this was sincere.  Sometimes it was forgery.  That's why we call them pseudoepigraphica if we can't tell the difference.

Incidently, I am a Christian but having been exposed to Eliphas Levi's and Dion Fortune's takes on the Kabbalah at too young an age, I have become skeptical of any take on that material which is outside Orthodox Judaism.

Answer 3

It is a wannabe "Gohan" from Dragon Ball Z.