I posted the list of the old Orthodox commentaries who called it heresy or a forgery in a previous thread where we talked about the Zohar. What bothers me is not that you accept the Zohar or Gilgul since you have Rabbis to follow, but that you don't know the logic as to why you accept it other than "my Rabbi accepts it" and you are usually unable to offer Torah support for your view or counter argue with the opposing viewpoint since you don't know any Torah on your own without asking your Rabbi. The most you said was a weak proof that possibly it can be interpuited that a Rabbi a few hundred years ago added a hint to Gilgul in a prayer and maybe R' Kahane believed in the Zohar (according to you, not me), note these are not Torah proofs but simply the Rabbi game you like to play. Also you have this horrible insane mentality that a simple Jew presenting Torah proof is irrelevant unless he is a Rabbi. I am a simple Jew trying to argue Torah and if you won't listen to my Torah on the basis of it's own merit or argue Torah with me but think that Torah was only created to be learned by Rabbis than I have nothing to say to you.
No I acept it also becuase of the great Divine information it contains, something that no-one else knew, which leaves no doubt. For example.
THE ZOHAR PREDICTS THE INDUSTRIAL/ TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
IT IS WRITTEN IN THE ZOHAR (I VAYERA 117a)
Every sixty years of the sixth millennium the gates of lower wisdom will strengthen and rise up gradually stronger. And after six hundred years of the sixth millennium there will be opened the gates of wisdom above and the fountains of wisdom below, and the world will make preparations to enter the seventh thousand as man makes preparations on the sixth day of the week [before Shabbat], when the sun is about to set. As a mnemonic to this we take the verse, "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life . . . all the fountains of the great deep were broken up" (Gen. 7, 11).
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN 5762 WHICH IS EQUAL TO 2002
YEAR 600 OF THE 6TH MILLENNIUM EQUALS 5600 AND ONWARDS [JUST LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY CORRESPONDS TO 2000]
TODAY IS 5762 – 5600 = 162 YEARS AGO
2002 – 162 YEARS = 1840
IF YOU LOOK AT THE DISCOVERIES THAT BROUGHT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION AND ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIED SCIENCE: TRANSPORT, ENERGY, COMMUNICATIONS, ETC., THE BULK OF THEM STARTED TAKING PLACE FROM 1800 AND ONWARDS. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT A GREAT DEAL OF THE DISCOVERIES TOOK PLACE THROUGH WHAT IS CALLED SERENDIPITY [MAKING USEFUL DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT]. AS IF TO FURTHER PROVE THE POINT, THAT SINCE IT WAS DECREED THAT MANY DISCOVERIES WOULD TAKE PLACE FROM 1800 AND ONWARDS THEN IT HAD TO HAPPEN WHETHER INTENTIONALLY OR NOT.
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THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH
THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH
DIFFERENT CLIMATES SHAPE THE FEATURES OF INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH
THE PERIOD OF ONLY DAY AND ONLY NIGHT AT THE POLES
THE EARTH IS SHAPED LIKE THE HUMAN EYE
IT IS WRITTEN IN THE ZOHAR (VAYIKRA 10a)
“In the Book of Rab Hamnuna the Elder it is explained further that all the inhabited world rotates in a circle like a ball, so that some are above and some below, and the strange appearances of certain races are due to the nature of the air, each one according to his respective place but they live and are sustained as other men. There is a part of the inhabited world where it is light for some when in another part it is dark for others, so that some have night while others have day. Also there is a place where it is always day and where there is no night save for one short hour. All this account which is found in the books of the ancients and in the Book of Adam the first man is confirmed by Scripture, which says: "I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, wonderful are Your works" (Ps. , 15), and again, "O Lord, how manifold are Your works" (PS. 104, 24). This mystery" has been entrusted to the masters of wisdom,[The Rabbis and prophets who received the knowledge from the first man] but is not known to those who mark the boundaries because it is a deep mystery of the Torah.
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SO YOU CAN SEE IN ONE SMALL PARAGRAGH RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI TELLS US IN THE ZOHAR THE FOLLOWING:
1- THE EARTH IS ROUND
2- IT ROTATES JUST LIKE A BALL
3- SOME PEOPLE ARE ABOVE AND SOME BELOW [YET THEY DON’T FALL]
4- APPEARANCE OF PEOPLE GO ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT CLIMATES
5- ROTATION PRODUCES DAY AND NIGHT AT THE SAME TIME IN DIFFERENT PLACES
6- THE LENGTH OF DAYLIGHT AT THE POLES
7- RABBIS KNEW ABOUT THESE THINGS BUT NOT GEOGRAPHERS
HERE ARE ANOTHER 2 PORTIONS FROM THE ZOHAR WHICH SHOW YOU ITS KNOWLEDGE MORE THAN 1500 YEARS AGO OF THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH
(ZOHAR VAYECHI 226a)
THE EYE AND THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH
The human eye represents the world with its various colors. The outer ring of white corresponds to the Oceans that surround the whole world. The next color represents the land that is surrounded by the Seas. A third color in the middle of the eye corresponds to Yerushalaim which is in the center of the world. Finally there is the pupil of the eye, which reflects the onlooker and is the most precious part of all and it corresponds to Tzion which is the central point of the Universe, in which the reflection of the entire world can be seen.
THE EYE AND THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH
[ZOHAR II, 222b]
Now, the earth's expansion round the central point was completed in three concentric rings, each of a different hue and texture. The first ring, the nearest to the Point, is of the purest and most refined earth-material; the second expansion, surrounding the first, is of a less
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polished, less refined earth-material than the first, but is superior to the one surrounding it; the third expansion consists of the darkest and coarsest earth-material of all. Then, surrounding that expansion, come the waters of the ocean that surrounds the whole world. Thus the point is in the center, and the various expansions encircle it. The first expansion embraces the Sanctuary and all its courts and enclosures and all its appurtenances, as well as the whole city of Jerusalem bounded by the wall; the second expansion embraces the whole of the Land of Israel, the Land which was declared holy; the third expansion comprehends the rest of the earth, the dwelling-place of all the other nations. Then comes the great ocean which surrounds the whole. The whole arrangement is symbolized by the structure of the human eye. For just as in the human eye there are three concentric layers surrounding a central point, which forms the focus of vision, so is the world's vision focused in the central point, consisting of the Holy of Holies and the Ark and the Mercy Seat. Hence the description, "a beautiful bowery, the joy of the whole earth", "beautiful" in its appearance, and radiating joy to the whole world. It is compared to a "bowery" because the beauty of a tree is displayed in its branches. Observe that true beauty and symmetry were not manifested in the world until the Tabernacle was finally erected and the Ark brought within the Holy of Holies. From that moment the world appeared at its best, it attained its just balance, and a way was opened through the Tabernacle and past the Ark up to that Point.
It is he who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)
He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing. (Job 26:7)
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