Bahir or Sefer HaBahir (Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַבָּהִיר, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈsefeʁ ˌ(h)abaˈ(h)iʁ]; "Book of Clarity" or "Book of Illumination") is an anonymous...
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This method was explained by Rashi, (b. Sukkah 45a), as well as in Sefer HaBahir (c. 1150~1200). Kabbalist legends state that the 72-fold name was used...
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Ptahil is mentioned in Sefer HaRazim, listed among other angels who stand on the ninth step of the second firmament.: 211 Bahir Semiphoras and Schemhamphorash...
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Castile, 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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texts, among them Hekalot Rabbati, Sefer HaBahir, Torat Hakana, Sefer P'liyah, Midrash Otiyot d'Rabbi Akiva, the Bahir, and the Zohar claim to be from the...
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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 influence...
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ISBN 978-1-56821-929-5. The Ten Sefirot: Introduction Diagram of 10 Sefirot and Attributes Sefirotic Systems in the Sefer Yetsira, Bahir and Post-Zohar Kabbalah...
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ISBN 9789652294302. Babylonian Talmud, Makkoth 23b Sefer HaMitzvot, Shoresh 1; see also Shabbat 23a Nahmanides, Hasagot to Sefer HaMitzvot This list is first mentioned...
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Sefer HaTemunah (Hebrew: ספר התמונה) (lit. "Book of the Figure", i.e. shape of the Hebrew letters) is a 13–14th century kabbalistic text. It is quoted...
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the oldest known kabbalistic text, Sefer ha-Bahir. The following year it appeared in book form as "Das Buch Bahir", having been published by his father's...
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Nefesh Ha-Chaim Or Adonai Perek Chelek Philo Sefer ha-Ikkarim Sefer ha-Chinuch Etz Chaim Maggid Mesharim Pardes Rimonim Sefer haBahir Sefer Raziel HaMalakh...
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Concordance – 1779". "The Beginning of Wisdom 9:10". "Sefer HaBahir 11". Sefaria. Kaplan, Aryeh (1997). Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice...
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also supposed by some to have been the author of the Bahir, Sefer haTemunah, and of the Sefer ha-Peli'ah. Megillah 28a Berakhot 4:2; Jerusalem Talmud...
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Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a book on Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries, such...
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Ezra at Leviticus (25:2) Bachya on Genesis 2:3 Safra D'Tzniusa, Ch. 5 Sefer HaSichos 5750:254 Derech Hashem 4:7:2 Kaplan, Aryeh (1991). The Aryeh Kaplan...
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the spread of Kabbalah in the 12th century. The "Book of Clarity" (Sefer ha-Bahir) of this period introduced concepts such as the transmigration of souls...
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than a Sefer Torah. The word ḥumash generally only refers to "book" bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the "scroll" form is called a sefer Torah...
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to this explanation, the Haggadah was written during the lifetime of Judah ha-Nasi (who was a student of Judah bar Ilia and the teacher of Abba Arika and...
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ha-Nasi]. For example, let us suppose that a certain halacha had originally been a matter of dispute between R. Meir and R. Yosi; but Rebbe [Judah ha-Nasi]...
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Dor Daim (section Talmide ha-Rambam)
[citation needed] What they view as the problem comes in with the Sefer ha-Bahir and the Zohar, where the Sefirot have become hypostatized as Divine...
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Tractate Sotah refers to the period after Judah haNasi's death, which could not have been written by Judah haNasi himself). According to the Iggeret of Sherira...
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them the ancient descriptions of Sefer Yetzirah, the Heichalot mystical ascent literature, the Bahir, Sefer Raziel HaMalakh and the Zohar, the main text...
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Bahya ben Asher (redirect from Kad ha-Kemach)
reveal any of his Kabbalistic sources, other than generally referring to Sefer HaBahir and the works of Nachmanides. He only mentions the Zohar twice. The...
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Divine Will see Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, Sefer Chasidim [page needed], and Rabbi Hayyim Vital, Sefer ha-Hezyonot (translated as Book of Visions in Faierstein...
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Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-08-03. Michael Mcgaha (1997), "The Sefer Ha-Bahir and Andalusian Sufism", Medieval Encounters, 3 (1): 20–57, doi:10...
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Kabbalah texts Hekhalot literature Pardes Rimonim Sefer HaBahir Sefer HaEtz Chaim Sefer Raziel HaMalakh Sefer Yetzirah Zohar Shulchan Aruch Siddur Hebrew literature...
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Kabbalah texts Hekhalot literature Pardes Rimonim Sefer HaBahir Sefer HaEtz Chaim Sefer Raziel HaMalakh Sefer Yetzirah Zohar Shulchan Aruch Siddur Hebrew literature...
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community printed the piyyutim that they preserve in a pamphlet entitled 'Sefer ha-rinah veha-tefilah', which was printed in 1968 and again in 1998. Laura...
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Arabic astronomers; Latin translations of the Zohar, the Sefer Yetzirah, and the Sefer ha-Bahir, which are works of Jewish Kabbalah, printed in 1552; Christian...
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extensive notes by Rabbi Margolies Sefer HaBahir (Jerusalem 1951), a kabbalistic work attributed to Rabbi Nehunye Ben HaKaneh with extensive notes by Rabbi...
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