Zohar

The Zohar, like Talmud, was the product of generations of masters & their disciples.

Zoharic literature is considered the basis of Kabbala

First printing of the Zohar, the fundamental work of the Kabbalah (Jewish esoteric and mystical teachings), authored by the Talmudic sage, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Links: The Kabbalah

It was in the Tannaic period that the Zohar, the most famous text of Kabbalah, was committed to writing by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (also known as the Rashbi). Rashbi lived in tumultuous times when the Roman government was executing all the great Torah ...

The holy Zohar opens with the image of the Jewish nation likened to a beloved rose with 13 petals and 5 sepals.

Comments from "Higher Criticism"

Review of the critics...

They weren't doing their homework....

Torah vocabulary and ideas...

Both judgment and loving-kindness are parts of the collective Jewish soul.