I studied Zohar yesterday - well almost, more like read a section of it.

As I see it has already been mentioned, the Zohar is the primary work of the Kabbalah. It is  written in Hebrew and primarily Aramaic (an ancient Semitic language similar to Hebre), and it is a work of great depth and symbolistic content.

My desire to study Kabbalah and specifically the Zohar is connected to my idea to improve myself as a person. I have heard I have also heard Rav Berg and the faculty  of his Kabbalah Centre speak of improving the world… so, it sounds good to me and inspired me.

The Jewish prayer book has some passages of the Zohar incorporated into the prayer service. I took a look at the English translation of one of these, but I didn’t understand it. I got the the literal meaning of the words (as they were translated in the prayer book) but not the depth and significance. It’s a start.

The Kabbalah Center has opened the world of the Kabbalah before anyone who wants to partake of the Kabbalah and its secrets.

Many do not know that what stands at the centre of Kabbalah is a work called the Zohar, which was written over 1700 years ago. The Zohar was written by the Jewish Sage and leader Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai, and it is an esoteric and metaphorical work on the connection between God and man.

The Kabbalah Centre bases its teachings on all of the Kabbalah texts, all of which themselves focus on the Zohar as the first and primary source. It is the ability of taking the original Hebrew and Aramaic and serving it to the English-speaking public that has made the Kabbalah Center quite a phenomenon.