SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER IV.

NOTE.—This is a modern illustration of the allotment

of the Seven Letters; it is not found in the ancient

copies of the “Sepher Yetzirah.”

original: "Sepher Yetzirah" (Book of Formation), the primary text of Jewish metaphysical thought.

He produced the letter Beth, and assigned it to Wisdom; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it the Moon in the Universe, the first day of the week, and the right eye of man.

He produced the letter Gimel, and assigned it to Health; He crowned it, combined it, and joined with it Mars in the Universe, the second day of the week, and the right ear of man.

He produced the letter Daleth, and assigned it to Fertility; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it the Sun in the Universe, the third day of the week, and the right nostril of man.

He produced the letter Kaph, and assigned it to Life; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it Venus in the Universe, the fourth day of the week, and the left eye of man.

He produced the letter Pé, and assigned it to Power; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it Mercury in the Universe, the fifth day of the week, and the left ear of man.

He produced the letter Resh, and assigned it to Peace; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it Saturn in the Universe, the sixth day of the week, and the left nostril of man.

He produced the letter Tau, and assigned it to Beauty; He crowned it, combined it, and formed with it Jupiter in the Universe, the Seventh Day of the week, and the mouth of man.

By these Seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven earths, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, seven weeks from Passover to Pentecost The fifty-day period known as the Counting of the Omer., and every seventh year a Jubilee original: "Jubilee" (Shmita/Yovel), referring to the biblical cycles of rest for the land and the release of debts..