SEFER YETZIRAH: MEDITATION, MAGIC, & THE COSMIC ARCHITECTURE

WITH RAV KOHENET JILL HAMMER 

Sefer Yetzirah is an ancient and foundational work of Jewish mysticism.  This brief and cryptic book imagines letters as the building blocks of the universe, and focuses our attention on the components of space, time, and soul and the elements of air, fire, and water. Its goal is to allow adepts to contemplate, and even partake in, the Divine creative process. We will be reading sections from the book closely in order to understand the practices of Sefer Yetzirah and their potential role in an earth-based, feminist, contemporary Jewish belief and contemplative practice. We will also be using the book to meditate and reflect on our own spiritual experience.