Ohr
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Ohr (Template:Langx, plural: Script error: No such module "Lang". ʾoroṯ) is a central Kabbalistic term in Jewish mysticism. The analogy to physical light describes divine emanations. Shefa "flow" (Script error: No such module "Lang". šep̄aʿ) and its derivative, hashpaʾa "influence" (Script error: No such module "Lang". hašpāʿā), are sometimes alternatively used in Kabbalah and medieval Jewish philosophy to mean divine influence, while the Kabbalists favour ʾor because its numerical value equals Script error: No such module "Lang"., a homonym for Script error: No such module "Lang". rāz "mystery".[1] ʾOr is one of the two main Kabbalistic metaphors for understanding God, along with the other metaphor of the human soul-body relationship for the sefirot.[2]
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Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]
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Galilean Meron. "Nature" HaTeva is the numerical value of Elohim, the name of immanent light. The Tetragrammaton transcendence creates through it. Kabbalistically, in Israel the concealment is less severe
![Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]](/wiki143/index.php?title=File:Tree_of_Life,_Medieval.jpg){kind=link}
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- ↑ Mystical Concepts in Chassidism, Kehot pub., chapter 1 "Anthropomorphism and Metaphors": (i Anthropomorphism, ii The Man-Metaphor, iii The Light-Metaphor)
- ↑ Caption to this illustration on p.2 of Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, Oxford University Press
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