of art, for example, is called in Hebrew 'yetzira', as well as the action of creating it. Thus, the name Sefer Yetzirah could refer to the act of creating...

Book of Enoch, Sefer Yetzira and the Sefer Habahir. In the book, Scholem, citing other scholars, observed similarities between the Sefer Yetzirah (Book...

Maimonidean doctrine and the teachings of Rabbi Yosef Qafih. Saadia Gaon: Sefer Yetzira, with Saadia Gaon's version of the text itself along with his Arabic...

the Vilna Gaon, ten different versions of a certain passage in the Sefer Yetzira and asked the Gaon to determine the correct text. The Gaon immediately...

יתעלה לעילא לעילא ממה שאומרים הכופרים). Judah b. Barzilai, Peirush Sefer Yetzira, ed. Solomon Zalman, Hayyim Halberstam, Berlin 1885. Pg. 21 Von der...

Divine beginning is implanted in the end and the end in the beginning" (Sefer Yetzira 1:7). The One God created both for one purpose – to reveal the holy...

little more than fragments. Sefer Yetzirah (סֵפֶר יְצִירָה) ("Book [of] Formation/Creation"), also known as Hilkhot Yetzira ("Laws of Formation"), is a...

Jacob Cordovero explain the Zohar as meaning that Metatron as the head of Yetzira This corresponds closely with Maimonides' description of the Talmudic "Prince...

art, for example, is called in Hebrew 'yetzira', as well as the action of creating it. Thus, the name "Sefer Yetzirah" could refer to the act of creating...

house like this. Sometimes a certain type of house can be drawn up in Yetzira but in real life wouldn't hold up or would be impracticable. These builder...