• Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה‎ Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a work of Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries, such...
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  • observable in the Sefer Yetzirah. The Pythagorean idea of the creative powers of numbers and letters was shared with Sefer Yetzirah and was known in the...
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    survives. Like other obscure ancient texts such as the Bahir and Sefer Yetzirah, Sefer HaRaziel has been extant in a number of versions. The book cannot...
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  • continued into the 18th century. The identification of the ancient Sefer Yetzirah concerning the creative force of the Hebrew letters as the means to...
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    especially the Sefer Yetzirah is acknowledged as the antecedent from which all these books draw many of their formal inspirations. The Sefer Yetzirah is a brief...
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  • Bahir (redirect from Sefer Ha-Bahir)
    points on the letters; the mystical significance of statements in the Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Creation"); and the use of sacred names in magic. There are...
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    spiritual aspects. The tradition of enumerating 10 is stated in the Sefer Yetzirah, "Ten sefirot of nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven"...
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    the problem of creation was not of paramount importance, the treatise Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Formation") represents an attempted cosmogony from within...
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    Zohar (redirect from Sefer Ha-Zohar)
    Nachmanides and Maimonides, and earlier mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Bahir and the medieval writings of the Hasidei Ashkenaz. Another...
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    Bahir (thirteenth century as well), and possibly the proto-Kabbalistic Sefer Yetzirah (fourth century). There are certain textual clues that point toward...
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    described, and the process described in Sefer Yetzirah (matter formed by speech). The cosmogony of Sefer Yetzirah is even omitted from the discussion of...
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  • Təlī; also translated as Tali, Thele, T'li, etc.), according to the Sefer Yetzirah, the earliest extant work of Jewish mysticism, is a celestial being...
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    Cordevero, Sefer Pardes ha-Rimonim, שער האותיות Elazar Rokeach, Sefer ha-Shem Encyclopedia Judaica Vol. 7, 2007, p. 426 Commentary to Sefer Yetzirah, attributed...
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  • Tamim's life and activities have been gathered principally from his Sefer Yetzirah commentary. In this commentary, which was written in 955–956 CE, Saadia...
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    "Wisdom," holds a foundational role in Jewish mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar. In early Kabbalah, Chokmah represents the initial divine...
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    of Binah has its roots in early Jewish mystical texts, such as the Sefer Yetzirah, which dates between the 2nd and 6th centuries CE. In this foundational...
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    thirty nations. Abraham is generally credited as the author of the Sefer Yetzirah, one of the earliest extant books on Jewish mysticism. According to...
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  • understanding as to be practically non-existent. In addition to the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar, other well-known explications of the relation between...
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  • Maimonides and the centuries earlier author of the kabbalistic related work Sefer Yetzirah "accepted the formulation of Creation, 'yesh me-Ayin.'" Chapter 2, Mishnah...
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  • texts within the realm of Jewish mysticism: the Sefer Yezirah and the kabbalistic Zohar. Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, Sēpher Yəṣîrâh "Book of Formation," or...
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  • works of Jain literature, and by Jewish mystics in the Talmudic book Sefer Yetzirah. The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics...
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    Guide of the Perplexed – Sefer ha-Ge’ulah (1273), Sefer Chayei ha-Nefesh, and Sefer Sitrei Torah (1280); on Sefer Yetzirah: – Otzar Eden Ganuz (1285/6)...
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    astronomy Jewish astrology Kabbalah Mazzaroth Renaissance magic Sefer Raziel HaMalakh Sefer Yetzirah The Planets, The Jews, and the Beginnings of 'Jewish Astrology'...
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  • even more so. The creative power of letters is particularly evident in Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: book of creation), a mystical text that tells a story of the...
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    Kaplan translated and annotated classic works on Jewish mysticism — Sefer Yetzirah, Bahir, and Derekh Hashem — as well as produced much original work on...
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    scriptural commentary that runs through its primordial phase in the Sefer Yetzirah, its inauguration in the Bahir, its exegesis in the Pardes and the Zohar...
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  • have also been a "doubled" letter, making the list BeGeD KePoReT. (Sefer Yetzirah, 4:1) ח‎ chet and ע‎ ayin represented the pharyngeal fricatives /ħ/...
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    Ramak throughout his adult life - a classic commentary on the Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah and the Zoharic literary offshoots. Its publication ended around 2005...
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    Sifre, Tosefta, Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanhuma, Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, Sefer Yetzirah, Yalkut Shimoni, Alphabet of Sirach and others. Nahum Norbert Glatzer...
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    Archived from the original on 2017-07-16. Retrieved 2017-07-27. "WoC :: Sefer Yetzirah". www.workofthechariot.com. Archived from the original on 2023-01-20...
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