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Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew: סֵפֶר יְצִירָה Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is a work of Jewish mysticism. Early commentaries, such as the Kuzari , [ 1 ] treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory, as opposed to one about Kabbalah .
Sefer Yetzirah (סֵפֶר יְצִירָה) ("Book of Creation"), also known as Hilkhot Yetzira ("Laws of Creation"), is a primary source of Kabbalistic teaching. The first commentaries on this small book were written in the 10th century, a book by the title is mentioned in the Talmud , and its linguistic organization of the Hebrew alphabet ...
The Sefer Yetzirah is a brief document of only few pages that was written many centuries before the high and late medieval works (sometime between 200-600CE), detailing an alphanumeric vision of cosmology—may be understood as a kind of prelude to the canon of Kabbalah. [7]
In the most authoritative English translation of the Sepher Yetzirah, scholar Aryeh Kaplan, interprets chapter five, verse two, as describing a cube. [3] However, another occult author, Kevin Townley, explains a cosmology of an octahedron within a cube. [4] [5]
A four-pages-per-sheet PDF arrangement of the above, allowing for printing on 3 reams of Letter paper duplex Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine; Zohar and Related Booklets in various formats in PDF files, at ha-zohar.net; Sefer haZohar, Mantua edition (1558), at the National Library of Israel, DjVu file
Sefer Yetzirah (Hebrew, Sēpher Yəṣîrâh "Book of Formation," or "Book of Creation," ספר יצירה) is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism. "Yetzirah" is more literally translated as "Formation"; the word "Briah" is used for "Creation".
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage.
'books'), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred. These are generally works of Torah literature, i.e. Tanakh and all works that expound on it, including the Mishnah , Midrash ( Halakha , Aggadah ), Talmud , and all works of Musar , Hasidism , Kabbalah , or machshavah ...