The
Internet is full of web sites on "Sefer Yetzirah" (also spelled as
Sefer Yesirah, Sefer Yezirah or Sefer Yezira, among other spellings).
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The Sefer Yetzirah text in Hebrew and English can easily be found on the Internet. Some sites with the Hebrew text of Sefer Yetzirah.
Since the Sefer Yetzirah is open to much
interpretation, controversy and discussion, there is one true, difinitve
source. A true Qabalist must take all of the sources into context and
decide which combinations suit their own path.
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Psyche's 400+ Links to Sefer Yetzirah titles and other topics
Saadia's SEFER YETZIRAH http://www.wbenjamin.org/saadia.html#links
from Walter Benjamin's site; complete text, plus excerpts of Saadia's
Commentary [From Saadia ben Joseph (al-Fayyumi), Commentaire sur le
Séfer Yesira ou Livre de la Création par Le Gaon Saadya de Fayyoum,
trans. & ed., M. Lambert, Paris, Emile Bouillon, Editeur, 1891);
translated into English by Scott Thompson and Dominique Marson
SEFER YETZIRAH Bibliography by William Benjamin http://www.wbenjamin.org/biblio_yetzirah.html Compiled by Scott J. Thompson
[The following bibliography combines original scholarship and
translation. It combines the substance of the annotated bibliography in
Lazarus Goldschmidt's Sepher Jesirah: Das Buch der Schöpfung (1894), but
has been chronologically arranged in the manner of Adolf Jellinek's
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kabbalah (1852) and updated. It does not
purport to be complete and is always being revised.]
Sefer Yetsirah: Saadi edition: http://www.wbenjamin.org/saadia.html SEFER YETZIRAH [Book of Creation] & Saadia's
Commentary (excerpts) [From Saadia ben Joseph (al-Fayyumi), Commentaire
sur le Séfer Yesira ou Livre de la Création par Le Gaon Saadya de
Fayyoum, trans. & ed., M. Lambert, Paris, Emile Bouillon, Editeur,
1891); translated into English from the French & Hebrew by Scott
Thompson and Dominique Marson, San Francisco, 1985.] Translated from the
Hebrew and French by Scott J. Thompson & Dominique Marson. Walter
Benjamin Research Syndicate.
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This is the most authoritative
text on the study of the "Sefer Yetzirah" or Book of Formation (Book of
Creation). Kaplan's explanations are easy to understand and make common
sense. A must have manual for anyone ready to decipher this ancient
manuscript. Paperback: 398 pages. Publisher: Weiser Books; Rev Sub
edition (May 1997). Language: English.
by R. A. Gilbert (Foreword),
Arthur Edward Waite (Editor, Introduction), Knut Stenring (Translator)
Stenring has made a word-for-word
translation from several texts, choosing only those parts which he
believed to be authentic. He reveals the text’s secrets in his diagrams,
tables, and extensive notes. His "Master Key to the Theoretical and
Practical Kabala" is a diagram of the correspondences between the
English and Hebrew alphabets and is not found in other translations of
the Sepher Yetzirah. The introduction by Waite surveys the historical
background of the Sepher Yetzirah translations and the import of this
foundational Kabbalistic text. Knut Stenring was a Swedish Hebrew
scholar. He published this work in 1923.
A selection from INTRODUCTION: The
"Sepher Yetzirah," or "Book of Formation," is perhaps the oldest
Rabbinical treatise of Kabalistic philosophy which is still extant. The
great interest which has been evinced of 1ate years in the Hebrew
Kabalah, and the modes of thought and doctrine allied to it, has induced
me to translate this tractate from the original Hebrew texts, and to
collate with them the Latin versions of mediaeval authorities; and I
have also published An Introduction to the Kabalah which may be found
useful to students. Three important books of the "Zohar," or "Book of
Splendour," which is a great storehouse of Kabalistic teaching, have
been translated into English by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, and the "Sepher
Yetzirah" in an English translation is almost a necessary companion to
these abstruse disquisitions: the two books indeed mutually explain each
other.
Sepher Yetzirah (Kindle)
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