Le Sefer Yesirah or Book of Creation is a theoretical essay on the problems of cosmology and cosmogony. Written probably between the third and sixth centuries, it is one of the oldest speculative texts that exist in Hebrew. Mystical meditation seems to have been one of the sources from which the author drew his inspiration. Its main subject is the elements of the world which are found in the ten elementary and prime numbers, the Sephiroth, as the book calls them, and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. These together represent the mysterious forces whose convergence produced the various combinations that can be observed throughout all creation, they are the “thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom”, with which God created all that exist.
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