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Sefer Yetzira- [e-book] : chronicles of desire, a new Hebrew/English translation & commentary.

서명/저자: Sefer Yetzira - [e-book] : chronicles of desire, a new Hebrew/English translation & commentary. Worch, J. Hershy

내용주기: Sefer Yetzira: chronicles of desire, a new Hebrew/English translation & commentary -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Our Patriarch Abraham's Chapter -- Chapter Two: Our Matriarch Sarah's Chapter -- Chapter Three: Rabbi Akiba's Chapter -- Chapter Four: The Seven Women's Chapter -- Chapter Five: The Twelve Tribes' Chapter -- Chapter Six: Rebbe R. Elimelech's Chapter -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Index

초록/해제: 요약 : Sefer Yetzira is a sacred book of great antiquity and power, and one of Judaism's oldest texts after the Bible. In this new translation and commentary, Rabbi Worch leads us step-by-step through innermost chambers of Jewish mysticism. We are allowed to listen in to the arguments between Moses and God, to the whispered dialogue between Rabbis Akiba and Ishmael, and to those fervid and passionate practitioners of whose ecstasies these pages remain redolent. In the beginning was God's desire for us. Sefer Yetzira describes the process whereby desire materializes in the Breath of God and thence into the Ten Sephirot and twenty two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Commentaries to the Sefer Yetzira, through the ages, have reflected the spirit and yearning of those times, the genius and romance of the zeitgeist, be it philosophical, mathematical or contemplative. This commentary reflects the strikingly mystical qualities of Hasidism and the post-modern approach to text. In this book, we read how to listen for the breath of the Living God, how to hear it and breathe it back, in the mystery of our sacred kisses.