Rabbi Pinhas was regularly before Rabbi Rehumai, by the shore of the Sea of Galilee. A great and elderly man was Rabbi Rehumai, and his eyes grew weak.

He said to Rabbi Pinhas, “Indeed, I heard that Yochai, our friend, has a gem, a good stone, a son. I looked in the light of that gem, and it is as the illumination of the sun from its sheath, illuminating the entire world” (Zohar for All, “Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave,” 185).

This is about the fact that the great sage Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai has a son, who by the age of 13 began to reveal himself as an expert in the Torah. Further the text talks about the daughter of Rabbi Pinchas, the wife of Rabbi Shimon, the mother of their son Rabbi Elazar.

Question: Why is the concealed information of the universe transmitted in such a narrative style? It seems that there should be some formulas here, something more interesting.

Answer: If we attained the inner part of the Torah, we would extract a lot of data from it. Why does the article talk about some guy and a girl who get engaged to each other, about their relatives who are friends with each other? What does The Book of Zohar even say?

In fact, it says that the time has come to reveal the inner part of the Torah. For this, it is necessary to revive the connection between the generations of fathers and children and thus reveal the inner essence of The Book of Zohar.

After all, by son and father it means souls. The son is our next spiritual state.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23

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