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Sefer Yetzirah

Sefer Yetzirah 2

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

Twenty-Two Letters of Foundation—Three Mothers, Seven Pairs, and Twelve Simple Letters. Three Mothers, Alef-Mem-Shin: Their foundation is the palm of innocence and the palm of guilt, and the tongue of edict decides between them.

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

Twenty-Two Letters—He carved them, and hewed them, and weighed them, and exchanged them, and combined them, and formed with them the soul of every formed being and the soul of every being He has yet to form.

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

Twenty-Two Letters of Foundation—Carved with voice, hewn with spirit, fixed in the mouth in five places: Alef-Heh-Chet-ʽAyin, Bet-Waw-Mem-Peh, Gimel-Yod-Kaf-Qof, Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Taw, Zayin-Samekh-Shin-Resh-Tzadi. ([In the Mantua printing, the following is added to the paragraph:] Bound to the tongue like a flame to coal—Alef-Chet-Heh-ʽAyin, serving behind the tongue in the house of swallowing. Bet-Waw-Mem-Peh, between the lips and in front of the tongue. Gimel-Yod-Kaf-Qof, being cut upon the third portion of the tongue. Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Taw, with the tip of the tongue, serving with voice. And Samekh-Tzadi-Resh-Shin, between the teeth and tongue, lain down and flattened. [On this stand the remarks of the Ramav.])

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

Twenty-Two Letters of Foundation—Fixed in a wheel with 231 gates. The wheel turns back and forth. This is a cypher for the matter: There is nothing in goodness higher than Delight, and nothing in evil lower than Affliction.

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

How did He weigh and transform them? Alef with them all and all of them with Alef; Bet with them all and all of them with Bet. And so it turns, such that all matter is found and all speech emerges into one name.

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English · Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria Community Translation

He formed matter from chaos and made nothingness somethingness; He hewed great columns out of imperceptible Air. This is a cipher: observing, transforming, making all matter and all words one name. A cipher for the matter: twenty-two (numbers) [objects] in one body.

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