Sefer Yetzirah

The Book of Formation

The Sefer Yetzirah — Book of Formation — is the oldest and most fundamental text of Jewish mysticism. In six short chapters, it describes God’s creation of the universe through thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom: ten sephiroth (divine emanations) and twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Through these thirty-two elements, all of reality was formed. The book attributes this teaching to Abra