SEPHER YETZIRAH

THE

BOOK OF FORMATION.

CHAPTER I.

Section 1. By thirty-two¹ wonderful Paths of Wisdom, Jah², Jehovah of Hosts³, the God of Israel⁴, the God of the living⁵, the King of ages, the merciful and gracious God⁶, the exalted One, the Dweller in eternity, whose name is high and holy—engraved his name by the three Sepharim⁷ original: "Sepharim" refers to three related Hebrew concepts: Sepher (book/text), Sapher (number), and Sippur (communication/story)—Numbers, Letters, and Sounds.⁸

2. Ten are the ineffable Sephiroth⁹ original: "Sephiroth" refers to the ten divine emanations or attributes of God. Twenty-two are the Letters, the Foundation of all things; there are Three Mothers, Seven Double, and Twelve¹⁰ Simple letters.

3. The ineffable Sephiroth are Ten, as are the Numbers; and just as there are in man five fingers corresponding to five others, so over them is established a covenant of unity, through the word of the tongue and through the circumcision of the flesh¹¹.

4. Ten is the number of the ineffable Sephiroth: ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Understand this wisdom and be wise in your perception. Search into it, return the Word to its creator, and restore the Former The Creator to his throne¹².

5. The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have ten vast dimensions original: "regions" bound to them; they are boundless in their beginning and have no end; an abyss¹³ of good and of evil; measureless height and depth; boundless to the East and the West; boundless to the North and the South¹⁴; and the Lord, the