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The Ten Sefirot: Hokhmah

Translation

Wisdom

Description

Hokhmah represents the contemplative, synthetic aspects of God's thought.

It is the primordial point of creation from which all knowable reality originates.

There are 32 ways of Wisdom.

Human Imagery (Primordial Man)

  • Right brain

Biblical Figures

  • King Solomon

Names of God

  • Yah
  • The letter "yod" of the four-letter name of God (the Tetragrammaton

Other Symbols and Images

  • Primordial Point.
  • "There is" (Yesh), Being, as in "Being out of 'Nothingness'").
  • Beginning.
  • Eden.
  • The origin of Thought.
  • Seed.
  • Fountain.
  • Will.
  • Depth.
  • Father.

Sources: Prof. Eliezer Segal