Background:

The Book of Zohar is the main book of the kabala (Jewish mysticism) trend. The book contains studies (midrash - homiletic interpretation) about the Torah (the Pentateuch) according to the portion of the week. The book tells us how it's possible to influence on the world by ours spiritual action.

 The book structure: 

The Book of Zohar divided to three main parts:

• The main Book of Zohar
• Torah Secrets and The Hidden Study
• “Rahaia Meheemna”and the  Rectifications (“Tikunim”)

1. The first part includes the ‘Idrots’ – ‘Idra Raba’ (=the big Residence), ‘Idra Zuta’ (=the small Residence) and ‘Idra Debi Mishcana’ (=the Tabernacle Residence).

The three ‘Idrots’ contents:

* ‘Idra Raba’ - mainly contain the creation secrets regarding the prehistoric man and divinity revelation.

* ‘Idra Zuta’ – tell us about "Rash-bee" (Rabi Shimon bar Yochai) death who announce secretes to his students, secrets that he was afraid to reveal before that.

* ‘Idra Debi Mishcana’ - "Rash-bee" and 3 of his students discuss about the prayers secrets according to studies on the Tabernacle establishment verses.

2. The second part of The Book of Zohar include the composition “Torah Secrets” (Sitre Torah) who grouped together articles about the Book of Genesis and “The Hidden Study” (Hamidrash Haneelam) on the Torah. The articles combining two languages, Hebrew and Aramaic and deal with the creation, the next world and spirituality.

3. The third part of The Book of Zohar – mainly include “Rahaia Meheemna” (=the loyal shepherd) and the “Zohar Rectifications” (“Tikunim”). “Rahaia Meheemna” deal with the reasons to all the Torah mitzvah’s when "Rash-bee" and his friends meet Moses and others saints who explains them the mitzvah’s secrets.

Writing The Book of Zohar:

The beginning of The Book of Zohar starts in the third century inside little cave who called ‘Idra Raba’ in a forest surround Zephath, at the foot of the Meron mountain. Inside the cave, "Rash-bee" together with 10 Rabbis found a place to hide from the Romans regime. 

The 10 Rabbis hide in the cave 13 years. According to the “midrash”, they were fed from carob tree and drank water from fountain near by. During the years in cave heir cloths was torn already, in order to stay covered during the study, they cover them self with sand all over their bodies and wrote what called today The Book of Zohar.

 After 13 years, "Rash-bee" and his son went out from the cave and gather 10 students to raise them spirituality, each one under his soul. In that way, "Rash-bee" built common spiritual tool which cause the student feel the superior world structure, the highest source of our existence.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochay told that he could have been able to write the book by himself and pass him to the next generations in order to expose the book in later period. Therefore, he used his famous student Rabbi Aba who wrote the The Book of Zohar during the studies with his spiritual master. He wrote the book in Aramaic in the beginning, but later he also included Greek and Latin. He wrote the book in a way that the reader will understand only the outside layer of the book, only someone who will reach the writer level, will find out the secret meanings of the book.

As far as a man working spiritually on him self, he refine him self spirituality to become more capable study profoundly the book. Respectively he gets spiritual powers to take part in the majority development.

The Book of Zohar put out of use short time after he has been written.  Few greatest sages of Israel know about his existence, but only very few actually saw him and he remain one of the biggest secret in Judaism like the rest of the kabala wisdom. 

Essence and highlight of The Book of Zohar:

The Book of Zohar is definitely one of the famous and special book that ever been written. Since he has been written, many stories and mystery myths related to him with no limits. The magic around the The Book of Zohar is so powerful and attractive that millions read him without even understanding the hiding meaning and cause them deadlock feeling, while many others millions afraid of him.

The Book of Zohar is prophecies and discoveries book which only big rabbis can decode.
Every line, symbol and letter has accurate specific intention by the writer. All the creation purpose, mankind future, knowledge and the history are hidden and underlying inside this holy book. Moreover writing the book, his mysterious disappearance and his new revealment are causing curiosity and exciting around the world.

The spiritual experience that described in the Zohar is direct connection between man and Creator (God). When Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochay wrote the book, he knew that the book in not designed to his period, but only to the days of the Messiah, a later period in the humanity life. There is a unique bond between The Book of Zohar, our period and the Jewish people. The book has been written is a period of mental prosperity means spiritual sublimity. After a while the Jewish people had experience of spiritual exile, means lost of connection with the supreme world which was expressed by the devastation of the second temple and long banishment. One of the “exile period” ending lineament is the establishment of the State of Israel and revelation The Book of Zohar which brought with him general spiritual revival.