<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Uncover the many secrets of the mysterious and complex Sefer ha-Bahir!</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>In this book, you'll learn the fascinating story of Bahir, including: </strong></p><ul><li>How Sefer ha-Bahir was first published and how it was written over the course of many ages</li><li>The structure of the modern form of the Bahir and who's responsible for it</li><li>What the ten utterances are</li><li>The concept of God's concealment, as explained in the text, and what "hester panim" means</li><li>How the Hebrew language is an active agent of Creation</li><li>Who the Masoretes are and how vowels and cantillations added new meaning to this adqab (all consonant) language</li><li>Who Adam Kadmon is and why he and Adam, Bad Boy of Creation, are and are not the same "guy"</li><li>What the seven voices concern the sefirot and the theophany at Mt. Horeb</li><li>How the ten commandments figure into the Kabbalistic model of Creation</li><li>What the 613 mitzvot mean in Judaism and their functional purpose in tikkun</li><li>How the Tetragrammaton came to be the highest name of God and how it's not really a name at all</li><li>The connection between glory and wisdom</li><li>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</li><li>What Neo-Platonism concerns Sefer ha-Bahir</li><li>What Shekhinah is and what it has to do with the "Victory of Victories" - the healing of Creation</li></ul><p>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. </p><p><strong>Click the "add to cart" button to get your copy of this book!</strong></p>
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