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Sefirotic Tree
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Sefirot, Animals, Astrology, Astronomy

Categories:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy, Astronomy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a half circle shape with many interior circles and branches, with center illustration of a person with three winged animals and an angel, another illustration on the left of person with a crown, and drawings along the perimeter of the half circle.
What Is the Teaching of Kabbalah and Hasidism If Not Expansion?
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What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…

Contributor:

Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1910–1918

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mysticism, Theology

Categories:

Science & philosophy
Sefirotic Tree
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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…

Contributor:

Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1533

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Kabbalah, Sefirot, Mysticism, Art

Categories:

Print & book culture, Science & philosophy
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing arranged in the form of a tree, with drawings of candelabrum, cherubs, and table in center, and drawing of dragon and figures on bottom left of the page.