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Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai )
The Book of Zohar (The Book of Radiance), the next major work in Kabbalah and perhaps the most famous, was written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, “the Rashbi,” around the year 150 C.E. Rashbi was a disciple of Rabbi Akiva (40 C.E.–135 C.E.), famed first and foremost for his emphases on the rule, “Love thy friend as thyself.” Rabbi Akiva did not, however, live a similar fate. He and several of his disciples were tortured and killed by the Romans, who felt threatened by his teaching of the Kabbalah. They flayed his skin and stripped his bones with an iron scraper (like today’s currycomb) used for cleaning their horses. Before that, a plague killed almost all of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students except a handful, among which was Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai. Kabbalists saw this plague as a result of their growing egoism, which led them to unfounded hatred. This was the opposite of their teacher’s rule, “Love thy friend as thyself.”
Following the death of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 disciples, Rashbi was authorized by Rabbi Akiva and
Rabbi Yehuda Ben Baba to teach future generations the Kabbalah as it had been taught to him. It was felt
that only those who hadn’t fallen into this unfounded hatred survived and they wrote the next great chapter in Kabbalah, The Book of Zohar
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