The Sefer Yetzirah is perhaps the oldest text of what would become the Jewish Mysticism known as the Kabbalah. Though, virtually everything about this brief text is a mystery. When was it written, by whom and exactly what it means are all hotly debated topics by academics, kabbalists and occultists. Indeed, the text is so linked with magical power that commentaries on the text describe how one might construct artificial life itself in the form of the famed Golem. This episode explores the origin, development and contents of this elusive but profound mystical text

Gershom Scholem Kabbalah 9780452010079 (dated but still useful)
Tzahi Weiss Sefer Yesirah and Its Contexts 9780812249903
Peter Hayman Sefer Yesira: Edition, Translation and Textcritical Commentary 9783161483813 (ILL this one)
Don Karr Notes on Editions of Sefer Yetzirah in English https://www.academia.edu/22875900/Not...
Aryeh Kaplan Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation 9780877286905 (Lurianic perspective)
Sefer Yetzirah HaShalem Harav Moshe Tzuriel (check seforim stores)

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