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According to itself, Kaballah dates back to the Garden of Eden. Scholars generally hold that Kaballah evolved from earlier forms of Jewish mysticism. Here are some names of people who, if they did not start it, made major contributions:
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, first century Judea, is the claimed author of the Zohar. However, many scholars consider the Zohar to be pseudoepigraphic. That is, written by someone other than the person claimed in the text as the author.
Rabbi Moses de Leon , 13th century Spain, scholars say he probably wrote the Zohar; he claimed that he found it. The Zohar is the central text of Kaballah.
Rabbi Isaac Luria, 16th century Palestine, father of what is now called the Lurianic Kaballah. He only wrote a few poems, but he had many students who spread his views.
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