TRADITION TODAY: Celebrating Bar Yohai with caution
I suppose Bar Yohai attained this status because he was thought to be the author of the Zohar, the central book of the Kabbala, the magnificent text of Jewish mysticism.
WORSHIPERS GATHER at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai on Lag Ba’omer in 2016 in Meron(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByREUVEN HAMMERRead More
