Title: Sefer ha-Bahir: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Bahir and Its Influence on Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism (Hardback or Cased Book)
Publisher: Primasta 4/27/2021
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1638180776
ISBN 13: 9781638180777
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
Condition: New
Weight: 0.74 pounds
Book Type: Book

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Uncover the many secrets of the mysterious and complex Sefer ha-Bahir!

Sefer ha-Bahir has been the subject of scrutiny and debate for hundreds of years. Ambiguity about its dating and authorship have consumed Jewish scholarship's greatest minds over countless ages.

Born in the Ancient Near East's cultural cauldron, Sefer ha-Bahir was not written in ancient times, although many ideas found in its pages hail from them. According to scholars, this fragmented document - scattered to the winds and then reassembled - would appear to us today to be one of Kabbalah's foundational documents.

It's in Bahir that we first read of the sefirot. But the sefirot of Bahir are not the sefirot of later Kabbalah, not even of Sefer Yetzirah. These sefirot are seen through a completely different lens, a lens which ascribes to them seven voices and three sayings and a pivotal role in the Creation narrative of Genesis.

In this book, you'll learn the fascinating story of Bahir, including:

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

Get this book for an exciting and in-depth discussion of Sefer ha-Bahir, its place in the canon of Kabbalah, and the unique way it tells the story of how Creation was accomplished and humanity's role as God's partner in healing it.

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