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The origins of the golem are often traced back to the Sefer HaYetzira ... golem are found in commentaries on the Sefer Yetzirah during the twelfth and ...

of the description of space found in the Sefer Yetsira: Up, Down, East, West, South, North, and Center. Congruently, under the influence of the ...

Though his enemies questioned his parentage, Saadia, in "Sefer ... of and commentary on the "Sefer Yetzirah," written while ...

that the Gnostic-Proto-Kabbalistic text, the Sefer Yetzirah, "in its thought as well as in its terminology, is dependent upon the teaching of Proclus ...

two essays on the mystical Jewish text, Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation), in which Baeck suggested that it was written around the sixth century ...

adopted by the later haggadists and the Sefer Yetzirah. ... centuries C.E. A short essay called Sefer Yetzirah, or the "Book of ...

followed by the reading of the kabbalistic Sefer Yetzirah, the 613 commandments as enumerated by Maimonides, and excerpts from the Zohar, with opening ...

appear to have been the Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah. The so-called Lurianic Kabbalah had not yet reached Europe in the Maharal's time. ...

The kabbalistic book Sefer Yetzirah explains that the creation of the world was achieved by the manipulation of the sacred letters that form ...

and some say he wrote the Kabbalist work, the Sefer Yetzirah. Other works attributed to Abraham include the Apocalypse of Abraham and the Testament of ...