Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה‎ Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a book on Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries, such...

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...

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...

Nachmanides and Maimonides, and earlier mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah and the Bahir and the medieval writings of the Hasidei Ashkenaz. Another...

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...

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...

continued into the 18th century. The identification of the ancient Sefer Yetzirah concerning the creative force of the Hebrew letters as the means to...

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"...

the problem of creation was not of paramount importance, the treatise Sefer Yetzirah ("Book of Formation") represents an attempted cosmogony from within...

texts within the realm of Jewish mysticism: the Sefer Yezirah and the kabbalistic Zohar. Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, Sēpher Yəṣîrâh "Book of Formation," or...

understanding as to be practically non-existent. In addition to the Sefer Yetzirah and the Zohar, other well-known explications of the relation between...

works of Jain literature, and by Jewish mystics in the Talmudic book Sefer Yetzirah. The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics...

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...

Sefer". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved 16 April 2013. Benton, Christopher P. An Introduction to the Sefer Yetzirah (PDF)...

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)...

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...

described, and the process described in Sefer Yetzirah (matter formed by speech). The cosmogony of Sefer Yetzirah is even omitted from the discussion of...

Maimonides and the centuries earlier author of the kabbalistic related work Sefer Yetzirah "accepted the formulation of Creation, 'yesh me-Ayin.'" Chapter 2, Mishnah...

thirty nations. Abraham is generally credited as the author of the Sefer Yetzirah, one of the earliest extant books on Jewish mysticism. According to...

Bahir (thirteenth century as well), and possibly the proto-Kabbalistic Sefer Yetzirah (fourth century). There are certain textual clues that point toward...

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...

Sifre, Tosefta, Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanhuma, Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, Sefer Yetzirah, Yalkut Shimoni, Alphabet of Sirach and others. Nahum Norbert Glatzer...

Kaplan translated and annotated classic works on Jewish mysticism — Sefer Yetzirah, Bahir, and Derekh Hashem — as well as produced much original work on...

Cordevero, Sefer Pardes ha-Rimonim, שער האותיות Elazar Rokeach, Sefer ha-Shem Encyclopedia Judaica Vol. 7, 2007, p. 426 Commentary to Sefer Yetzirah, attributed...

"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...

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...

Merkabah-Hekhalot c. 100 BCE – 1000 CE Practical Kabbalah early CE–modernity Sefer Yetzirah 200–600 CE Ashkenazi Hasidim c. 1150 – 1250 CE Medieval Kabbalah Ecstatic...

Development of Kabbalah in relation to its texts, from inner.org: 1 Sefer Yetzirah - Nefesh action, 2 Zohar - Ruah emotion, 3 Pardes Rimonim (Cordovero)...

Chelek Philo Sefer ha-Ikkarim Sefer ha-Chinuch Etz Chaim Maggid Mesharim Pardes Rimonim Sefer haBahir Sefer Raziel HaMalakh Sefer Yetzirah Tikunei haZohar...

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...