Sephirot
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Sephirot, meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus). The term is alternatively transliterated into English as Sefirot/Sefiroth, singular Sephirah/Sefirah etc.
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Description
- Keter-"Crown": Divine Will to create/Infinite Light of the Creator/the Hebrew name of God "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh-I Am that I Am"
- Chochmah-"Wisdom": First unbounded flash of an idea before it takes on limitations/male light/Divine Reality/first revelation/creation from nothingness
- Binah-"Understanding": the infinite flash of Chochmah brought into the vessel of understanding to give it grasp of breadth and depth/feminine vessel that gives birth to the emotions/reason/understanding brings teshuva return to God
- Daat-"Knowledge": Central state of unity of the 10 Sephirot, also called the Tree of Life.
- Chesed-"Kindness": Loving grace of free giving/love of God/inspiring vision
- Gevurah-"Severity": Strength/judgment/intention/withholding/awe of God
- Tiferet-"Beauty": Symmetry/balance between Chesed and Gevurah in compassion
- Netzach-"Victory"
- Hod-"Splendor": Withdrawal/Surrender/sincerity
- Yesod-"Foundation": Connecting to the task to accomplish/wholly remembering/coherent knowledge
- Malchut-"Kingship": Female vessel for the pregnant nurturing of the male lights of the emotional sephirot into action/becomes the Keter Will source for any subsequent lower level in Creation/accomplishment/realization of the Divine Plan.
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See also
- Bible code, a purported set of secret messages encoded within the Torah.
- Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
- Chol HaMoed, the intermediate days during Passover and Sukkot.
- Chronology of the Bible
- Counting of the Omer
- Gematria, Jewish system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase.
- Hebrew calendar
- Hebrew numerals
- Jewish and Israeli holidays 2000–2050
- Lag BaOmer, 33rd day of counting the Omer.
- Notarikon, a method of deriving a word by using each of its initial letters.
- Significance of numbers in Judaism
- Weekly Torah portion, division of the Torah into 54 portions.
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