- How Sefer ha-Bahir was first published and how it was written over the course of many ages
- The structure of the modern form of the Bahir and who's responsible for it
- What the ten utterances are
- The concept of God's concealment, as explained in the text, and what "hester panim" means
- How the Hebrew language is an active agent of Creation
- Who the Masoretes are and how vowels and cantillations added new meaning to this adqab (all consonant) language
- Who Adam Kadmon is and why he and Adam, Bad Boy of Creation, are and are not the same "guy"
- What the seven voices concern the sefirot and the theophany at Mt. Horeb
- How the ten commandments figure into the Kabbalistic model of Creation
- What the 613 mitzvot mean in Judaism and their functional purpose in tikkun
- How the Tetragrammaton came to be the highest name of God and how it's not really a name at all
- The connection between glory and wisdom
- Who Gershom Scholem and Aryeh Kaplan were and how their contributions to understanding Sefer ha-Bahir catapulted it into the public consciousness of this Modern era
- What Neo-Platonism concerns Sefer ha-Bahir
- What Shekhinah is and what it has to do with the "Victory of Victories" - the healing of Creation
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Sefer ha-Bahir: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Bahir and Its Influence on Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism
by Mari Silva
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- How Sefer ha-Bahir was first published and how it was written over the course of many ages
- The structure of the modern form of the Bahir and who's responsible for it
- What the ten utterances are
- The concept of God's concealment, as explained in the text, and what "hester panim" means
- How the Hebrew language is an active agent of Creation
- Who the Masoretes are and how vowels and cantillations added new meaning to this adqab (all consonant) language
- Who Adam Kadmon is and why he and Adam, Bad Boy of Creation, are and are not the same "guy"
- What the seven voices concern the sefirot and the theophany at Mt. Horeb
- How the ten commandments figure into the Kabbalistic model of Creation
- What the 613 mitzvot mean in Judaism and their functional purpose in tikkun
- How the Tetragrammaton came to be the highest name of God and how it's not really a name at all
- The connection between glory and wisdom
- Who Gershom Scholem and Aryeh Kaplan were and how their contributions to understanding Sefer ha-Bahir catapulted it into the public consciousness of this Modern era
- What Neo-Platonism concerns Sefer ha-Bahir
- What Shekhinah is and what it has to do with the "Victory of Victories" - the healing of Creation
Paperback
$13.69