Sepher Yetzirah

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SEPHER YETZIRAH or THE BOOK OF CREATION
Traditionally ascribed to Abraham
Translated by William Wynn Wescott, tr. (1887)
Read by Dan Attrell
This is by no means the best translation of the Sepher Yetzirah, nor is it even really a good one. In the words of Justin Sledge over at Esoterica, this old translation is ‘a mess.’ Nevertheless, it is a significant one in the history of 19th century Western Esotericism and Occultism, and it is a version which is in the public domain. As such, I will read it as is, with warts and all, making only some very minor adjustments along the way (such as reading the letters provided in the Latin alphabet in their Hebrew equivalents). At times there are strange interpolations, such as sections taken from Chapter 5 and re-injected into Chapter 1. For a more up-to-date translation that has scholarly rather than historiographical merit, please go read Tzahi Weiss’s most recent edition (amzn.to/3vPrIUX), or the translation made by Aryeh Kaplan (amzn.to/3Kmz9Zg), or the one made by Peter Hayman (amzn.to/3MAqbsI), each of which have their merits. Lastly, if I mangle any Hebrew pronunciations along the way, please forgive me.
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@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

Like, share, and permute some letters in the comment section.

@alexnitsche2000 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this! Been reading it but wanted an audio book for this. Yessss thankss

@SamanthaOlensdottir 5 ай бұрын

Makes so much sense when it’s known in this way I’ve been searching for meaning and I think I found it thank you 🙏

@nicolesawyer-jm6ir 3 күн бұрын

Thank you. Your voice and clarity in reading. Lovely.

@pagerhoads1531 Жыл бұрын

Heard Gregg Braden mention this had to listen to it

@Acim12345 Ай бұрын

Hi. I just came across this and I’m just a girl from Arkansas- but the part where the universe is sealed in six directions is the geodesic dome of the cosmos. The six directions are the hexagonal carbon plasma (it’s glass). It’s one huge prism. I know there are a lot of scholars out there via Kabbalah. If so, you are correct via path to the no-thing of home. It goes from no-thing to womb to being a particle to being many particles to passing through these lives of awe them you just get back in your body without an individual mind. Super childlike. Anyway - love ya!

@bufftakis 4 ай бұрын

😂 "a mess" thank you for those words. as i completly understand the neesd for the humility these days Everyome has something to say regardless of how useless their opinion. and thanks even more for making this easily available. ❤

@markdpricemusic1574 2 жыл бұрын

As ever, many thanks for all your work. Very Sincerely, Mark.

@rafaeltorres6644 Жыл бұрын

Enlightening, and definitely a stepping stone in exploring.

@andrealfarrow6726 10 ай бұрын

After listening to the translation I realized how much better it is than one I heard very recently. As a firm believer in Abraham Abulafia and his message, I feel this translation is in the public domain for good reason and is a much better translation than it's given credit for (especially opposed to the prophetic Kabbalistic interpretation I just heard). It's easy to understand, it's not lacking (like some other translations). Thanks for a good and simple read. Straight to the point is so wonderful.

@TheEsotericaChannel 2 жыл бұрын

I read it for the first time (!) after we talked about it. If any of those alphabet soup esoteric groups in the 19th/20th century were basing their qabbalah on this....yikes. Thanks, Dan! I was at the NYC book fare late last week and saw not a few volumes that reminded me of you!

@eunoiaeudaimonia6829 2 жыл бұрын

How would you properly judge that notion, seeing as though you’re not a practitioner or even really believe in God as you said in your latest Q&A. Just curious is all.

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

Via intertextual analysis I assume.

@TheEsotericaChannel 2 жыл бұрын

@@eunoiaeudaimonia6829 I guess knowing the MS history of the text, the philosophical background of it's production, reading the original Hebrew of the various rescenions, the more than a dozen historical commentaries stretching over a millenia and seeing that this 'edition/translation' fails in every regard of those just makes me question using it as a foundation for basing much on. Not that they should let any pesky facts matter ;)

@eunoiaeudaimonia6829 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel thank you for the clarification. Really is a game changer to be able to read Hebrew and interprets these texts more intuitively. Etymology changes so much.

@TheEsotericaChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Also, given all that - I wouldn't want to use the text, given all the scholarship of the past 100 years or more, for the basis of anything outside of some generalities about its meaning: the text just remains that honestly obscure.

@SeekersofUnity 2 жыл бұрын

Was waiting for this one 😉

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

@SeekersofUnity 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist always do ;)

@tomcharles2987 Жыл бұрын

A reading of the ancient Hebrew text in its original writing reveals so much more. Much like when you read the old Testament in Hebrew versus reading it translated into English (or other languages).

@frankocean9173 Жыл бұрын

WHY??!?????

@tomcharles2987 Жыл бұрын

@frankocean9173 in short, the Hebrew language has less letters than English. Where English has, say, several words to convey an idea - the Hebrew language has one word to convey several different ideas. And the Hebrew language doesn't just convey these ideas in words, but also numbers (gematria) and pictographs for each word.

@WendysOccultCompass Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dan. I always love listening to you.

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@longcastle4863 Жыл бұрын

Very well read. Thank you.

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@ipercalisse579 Жыл бұрын

Unintentional asmr at its best

@benji7700 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@TheModernHermeticist 7 ай бұрын

🙏

@rockyrob8782 Жыл бұрын

I feel like I'm hearing the creation being told I can picture it

@1969brianpeterson Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting, I have to listen to it more times to understand it more fully. Brian P

@TheModernHermeticist Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@kevinmarshall3198 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed came here from esoterica.

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard

@indiglojones5292 2 жыл бұрын

Was here

@Lady_Ingenious 2 жыл бұрын

Niiice!

@ciziazyke5662 Жыл бұрын

What direction we need to face?

@normajeanray 11 ай бұрын

Face for what?

@barney4511 7 ай бұрын

East, unless the moon is rising or sun setting, then face that. Or face yourself if you can

@infinitycosmos4723 2 ай бұрын

My sepher doesn't list the 32 paths of wisdom.😟

@1ntrcnnctr608 2 жыл бұрын

what about "zero"? is 0 = circle? if so, is a circle = sphere? if so, is a sphere = spiral? if so, is a spiral = spring?

@lamarr1140 Жыл бұрын

Cypher, undefined

@1ntrcnnctr608 Жыл бұрын

@@lamarr1140 cool, i like that

@HeartOfTheSource 9 ай бұрын

From my understanding Zero= The primordial "Egg". Zero point is the womb that takes manifesting (thought/'con'sciousness) into (maternal/materialization/matter/material realm)

@1ntrcnnctr608 9 ай бұрын

@@HeartOfTheSource that makes Sense 2 me, Sun 👍

@wokeneto.3265 2 ай бұрын

Sun is also embryo while 0 is the egg, something I came noticed (-1 0 +1) 0 holds all for the negatives and positives of life came from 0 being "nothing" which I like to call eno

@iancu39 Жыл бұрын

אמת

@babalonsfinest6054 Жыл бұрын

"Let's go to the lab! And see what's on the slab!" - Mister Beast 666

@666THEMARK666 9 ай бұрын

Was it a man with blonde hair and a tan for relieving his....tension?

@bbcvods5052 Жыл бұрын

Science clothed in visual imagery

@silentobserver4425 2 жыл бұрын

Another one ☝️ dj khalid voice

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️

@user-cy6yx8ur8n 6 ай бұрын

Excuse me for not understanding what this is and why it may be important. Maybe someone can explain it's importance?

@user-sy1sm6kw5e Ай бұрын

Every word, it’s a text in a large category of Jewish writings that were kept sacred

@iamhewhospeaks Жыл бұрын

Second time listening to Defer Yetzirah as part of my Esoteric studies this year. Although I've made much progress, I have yet to understand why or how all of the Hebrew letters or correspond to human body parts, human activities, and constellations.

@vrillionaire88 Жыл бұрын

As above, so below. As within, so without. Take the many fractals, such as the mandelbrot set within the logistic map, crystalline order within apparent chaos. These fractals show us something about the mind of the One, that on every level, order assimilates itself from the void in self similar perpetuity. How? Why? They are questions that require us to remove our ego from the equation and look at the flow and resonance of energy that underlies the illusion of matter. How? Because He Said "Let there be Light" Why? Because He Saw the Light and He Saw that it was Good. And from the separation of Light and Dark, he gave life to the many patterns that came forth to describe the harmonies that stretched between infinite silence and the spoken Name.

@iamhewhospeaks Жыл бұрын

@@vrillionaire88 I've much to learn apparently.

@vrillionaire88 Жыл бұрын

@@iamhewhospeaks it's not learning as much as removing your ego as the barrier between you and the divine. The divine lives inside of you, all you have to do is allow it to speak through your mouth and see through your eyes. Safe seeking, brother.

@iamhewhospeaks Жыл бұрын

@@vrillionaire88 so be it. thank you.

@omniifit1271 Жыл бұрын

The Emerald tablets !! There is the lost scroll of Jesus too

@safeplacetoland1117 6 ай бұрын

🕊🌍🕊

@anothername5272 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting as well. Seems to be quite a bit of Jewish content lately. May I ask for a reason?

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

It's all tangential to my current dissertation work on Pico della Mirandola.

@anothername5272 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist Very interesting. Hopefully you'll share this around after it's done.

@RealUvane 2 жыл бұрын

Pico 🔥

@666THEMARK666 9 ай бұрын

And Sepulveda 🎶🎶

@smellymala3103 2 жыл бұрын

Based

@restoreasurface2809 Жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm missing something, but scripture says God rested on the 7th day, this writing says he created on the 7th day?

@INFJunpopularopinion 11 ай бұрын

You're not "missing" anything that I'm aware of. But I would like to remind that most people like to study the earlier records due to the LACK of translations, as backwards as that might sound, it's less like a game of telephone due to things lost in translation(s). Maybe I'm getting to philosophical here, but does one need to take physical action to create? If our thoughts shape our reality, and the most high is the ULTIMATE Creator, maybe that rest was just a lack of concious creating? Like God's lowkey way of saying "eff it" and it was ironically intentional because it gave us our BIGEEST key to true godliness forgiveness. What better way then to help us REAAAALLLLLY learn unconditional love, but a bunch of creations that will "challenge" us to dig deep for understanding and acceptance. Sorry, went real sideways there, tl:dr there truth in all and you didn't miss a thing, but it might only be the tip of the iceberg.

@barney4511 7 ай бұрын

Isaiah 40:28-31 Says God doesn't ever tire or rest. Did the author know the Bereshis?(first part of Genesis) It'd be interesting if not, thinking core pieces written without foundation of the before core peices.

@thedomlife 10 ай бұрын

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@larsschofield6519 Жыл бұрын

discernment is key

@robertpaulcorless7048 2 жыл бұрын

Ta Dan x

@Bildgesmythe 10 ай бұрын

These letters are the foundation of all things KZfaq! All hail the algogods. Draw knowledge from them😂

@sophiashekinah9872 Жыл бұрын

But I thought Jupiter is the 6th planet and Saturn the 7th.

@johnathanmandrake7240 Жыл бұрын

Written in 1800 something. But consider the possibility of the planets changing places too. Who knows, God does.

@ciciw9 11 ай бұрын

They change places often but it's not for us to know

@Dumizulu_Rain 10 ай бұрын

Yes it is the 6th when you read the book of infernal circles or depth it's the 6th infernal but in the upper world it is Regal and Sublime

@warrensmith8161 2 жыл бұрын

It is all allegory and Adam was created from the dust of a Sumerian clay tablet on a flat earth with four corners. The Word is God.

@valpere1892 Жыл бұрын

Dear Mr. Dan Attrell Can I Have your permission to post this video on my KZfaq channel?

@tohuvavohu Ай бұрын

I believe it's the book of formation, not creation

@pagerhoads1531 Жыл бұрын

Claustrum gift 🎁 🧠 🪜 👁

@patrickhenry7416 Ай бұрын

christ is king

@Melitulf 2 жыл бұрын

Robert Sepehr foretold???

@TheModernHermeticist 2 жыл бұрын

Just the word for book, like the sepher raziel or sepher ha bahir, etc.

@johnnewton8017 2 жыл бұрын

NO, just no.

@Melitulf 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheModernHermeticist I was just making a joke, particularly in the nature of bible schizos and their strange gematria obsession and ties based upon nothings

@Melitulf 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnewton8017 You speak like an avid reddit user