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Sefer Yetzirah
The Book of Creation
Aryeh Kaplan's translation and commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, the brief and enigmatic Book of Creation that describes the cosmos as formed through the ten sefirot and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Kaplan compares several textual versions, draws on a wide range of classical commentators, and reads the work as a meditative as well as cosmological text. It is one of the most detailed English resources for studying this foundational work of early Jewish esotericism.






