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The 32 Paths of Wisdom
Examine the opening of Sefer Yetzirah and the structure of the Kabbalistic theory of creation.
“With thirty-two mystical paths of wisdom, God engraved Yah... and He created His universe with three books: with text [Sefer], with number [Sefar] and with communication [Sippur]. Ten Sefirot of Nothingness plus twenty-two Foundation Letters: Three Mothers, Seven Doubles, and Twelve Elementals. [...] Ten Sefirot of Nothingness: their vision is like the appearance of lightning, their limit has no end. His word is in them as they rush forth and as they return. [...] Twenty-two Foundation Letters: He placed them in a circle like a wall with 231 gates. — Sefer Yetzirah 1:1, 1:6, 2:4 (trans. Aryeh Kaplan); Sefaria; Mayyim Achronim 'Sefer Yetzirah and the 32 Paths of Creation' (2024)”