About - Rabbi Shimon Bar-yochai

ABOUT RABBI SHIMON BARYOCHAI

Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochay (Rashbi) as the author of the book of Zohar in the second century A.C. It is the most important book in Kabbalah and considered the primary and most fundamental textbook. Rashby lived between the Talmudic period and that of the Zohar, and is regarded as a great researcher of our own nature and that of the upper world. 

He is also among the most important sages of the Talmud (his name is mentioned there some 4000 times).

He was proficient in both the language of the Talmud and the language of Kabbalah. He used them to describe the upper system of management, how the events of the present and the future are made to happen there, all the innovations and transformations, and how they come down from there to our world, how they manifest themselves in clothing of this world.

The book of Zohar explains which are the actions with which we influence the rest of the world from here below. Rashby was the first Kabbalist to describe the reactions that we get from above for our thoughts.  He describe how they operate in the upper world and thus affect the unfolding of future events that  are to descend to us.

Before Rashby began to write the Zohar, he established around him a group of disciples, in a way that the soul of each disciple corresponded to a certain spiritual degree in the upper world. There were nine of them and he was the tenth. Their conjunction to one soul fully corresponded to the complete structure that exists in the spiritual world, called“Esser Sefirot” (Ten Sefirot).

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Thus, although Rashby is the author of the book, it actually speaks of each and every one of the students, because each of them represents one of the attributes of the spiritual world. He built a sort of prism, through which the simple-upper light descends to our world, and divides to ten parts, which are then divided to ten inner Sefirot. Sefirot.

The cave “Idra Rabba” ( Aramic for “large conference”) is connected to the name of great Kabbalist Shimon Bar Yochai. There is no other place, which has a stronger spiritual influence than this.