• Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה‎ Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is the title of a book on Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries...
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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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  • 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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    acknowledged as ancestral to the sensibilities of Kabbalah and the Sefer Yetzirah—a brief document of only few pages written centuries before the high...
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    Zohar (redirect from Sefer Ha-Zohar)
    as Nahmanides 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Bahir (redirect from Sefer Ha-Bahir)
    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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    described, and the process described in "Sefer Yetzirah" (matter formed by speech). The cosmogony of "Sefer Yetzirah" is even omitted from the discussion...
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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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    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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    "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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  • 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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    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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  • in Sefer Ḥasidim." AJS Review 1 (1976) Sefer Hasidim 1076. Hebrew: לא מצאנהו שגיא כח לא דברה כנגד רצון הבורא ולא כפי הצורך לאדם Sefer Hasidim 1 Sefer Hasidim...
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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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  • Wisdom of the Ages by Case, Paul Foster Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation by Kaplan, Aryeh Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation, Page 203, by Kaplan...
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    and has sometimes censored it." The main work in this category is the Sefer Yetzirah (the "Book of Creation"), a short treatise that presents itself as a...
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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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    countings of the sefirot produce 10 powers ("10 and not 9, 10 and not 11" - Sefer Yetzirah) by either including Keter or Daʻat. In the scheme of Moses ben Jacob...
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    themselves to set up prophecy and will stumble.' Maimonides. Mishneh Torah, Sefer Shofetim, Melachim uMilchamot, Chapter 11, Halacha 4. Chabad translation...
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    III:257a Proverbs 10:25, as interpreted in the terminology of the Sefirot Sefer Yetzirah 1:7 Deuteronomy 30:20 Paraphrase of Talmud Ketubot 111b Kabbalistic...
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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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  • refer to: Theli (dragon), the name of the great dragon according to the Sefer Yetzirah Theli (album), album released in 1996 by symphonic metal band Therion...
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