א - Aleph - Air, Strength, Silence, Separation, Mirror, and Union ( Read more... )

Long ago, I started a series of posts on the 231 Gates mentioned in the Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Creation (or Foundation).  I posted a summary, then the first three gates,then took a break and never got back to then.  A person approached me a few days ago, asking me what my thoughts were on the Samech/Lamed Gate.  So I wrote up the following in ( Read more... )

The third of the 231 Gates is אד, Aleph Daleth.

א - Aleph - Ox, Strength, First Emanation
ד - Daleth - Door, Poor Man

אד - 'Ed - Mist, Vapour
דא - Da' - This, To another
ידא - Yeda' - To praise, give thanks
אוד - 'Uwd - Brand, Fire brand [root]
איד - 'Eyd - Distress, Burden, Calamity
בדא - Bada' - To devise, contrive, invent (bad sense) [Beit ( Read more... )

The second of the 231 Gates is אג, Aleph Gimel ( Read more... )

The first of the 231 Gates is אב, Aleph Beit.

א - Aleph - Ox, Strength, First Emination
ב - Beit - House, Womb, House of God, Pregnancy

אב, 'Ab - Father [root word]
אב, 'Eb - Freshness, fresh green, green shoots, or greenery
אב, 'Eb - Fruit, fresh, young, greening
איב, 'Ayab - To be hostile to, to be an enemy to [root word]
אוב, 'Owb - Water skin ( Read more... )

I'd like to correct a couple things I said in my post of the Gates, and to look at some new things about the 50 Gates of Understanding ( Read more... )

There is, in Kabbalah, a concept called a Gate.  A Gate is the combination, or coming together, of two paths.  As such, there are two different types of gates ( Read more... )