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Beri'ah (בְּרִיאָה or alternatively [2] בְּרִיָּה), meaning World of Creation. On this level is the first concept of creatio ex nihilo ( Yesh miAyin ), however without yet shape or form, as the creations of Beriah sense their own existence, though in nullification of being ( Bittul HaMetziut ) to divinity.
According to a Chabad source, the tree of life is to be interpreted in the following way: [25] The tree represents a series of divine emanations of God's creation itself ex nihilo, the nature of revealed divinity, the human soul, and the spiritual path of ascent by man. In this way, Kabbalists developed the symbol into a full model of reality ...
A book of the same name was circulated among the Ashkenazi Hasidim between the 11th and 13th centuries, for whom it became a source of Practical Kabbalah. This book seems to be a mystic work on the six days of creation, and corresponded in part to the small midrash, Seder Rabbah deBereshit. [8]
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 ...
Beri'ah (Hebrew: בְּרִיאָה), Briyah, or B'ri'ah (also known as Olam Beriah, עוֹלָם בְּרִיאָה in Hebrew, literally "the World of Creation"), is the second [1] of the four celestial worlds in the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah, intermediate between the World of Emanation and the World of Formation (), the third world, that of the angels.
The word is derived from "atzal" in Ezekiel 42:6. It was taken into Kabbalah via Solomon ibn Gabirol's Meqor Ḥayyim "Fountain of Life", which was much used by Kabbalists. . The theory of emanation, conceived as a free act of the will of God, endeavors to surmount the difficulties that attach to the idea of creation in its relation to G
In Lurianic Kabbalah their difference becomes the root cause of the new process of dynamic crisis-catharsis in the Divine unfolding of Creation. Akudim is the initial stable stage of Olam HaTohu (the "World of Chaos"), [ 6 ] the first emergence of the sephirot in undifferentiated unity, 10 lights encompassed in one vessel.
In Hasidic explanation, through completing this esoteric Kabbalah-Wisdom process, thereby the more sublime ultimate Divine purpose-Will is achieved, revealing this World to be the Atzmus "dwelling place" of God. In Kabbalah, the Torah is the Divine blueprint of Creation: "God looked into the Torah and created the World". [12]