"Sefer Yetzirah" Authors Internet Links

The Internet is full of web sites on "Sefer Yetzirah" (also spelled as Sefer Yesirah, Sefer Yezirah or Sefer Yezira, among other spellings). Many of these sites have been online for years and provide a good source of understanding and personal commentaries.

Some of these links have been hard to find. Many go out of service, have become password protected to limit outside visitors or have changed their focus or domain. This list of Sefer Yetzirah web site's is updated often. New links are added as they are discovered or suggested.

One great discovery is a Polish web site with Hebrew texts of several version of Sefer Yetzirah along with other great Kabbalah works. Be sure to visit the resources at HEBREJSKÁ KNIHOVNA KABALISTICKCH at http://www.grimoar.cz/hebrew/

The Sefer Yetzirah text in Hebrew and English can easily be found on the Internet. Below are some sites with the Hebrew texts.

Since the Sefer Yetzirah is open to much interpretation, controversy and discussion, there is one true, difinitve source. A true Qabalist must take all of the sources into context and decide which combinations suit their own path.

Authors "Sefer Yetzirah"

Hebrew copies of Sefer Yetzirah manuscripts (web site is in Polish, but the texts are in Hebrew and can be downloed as pdfs) HEBREJSKÁ KNIHOVNA KABALISTICKCH TEXT: http://www.grimoar.cz/hebrew/

Sefer jecira a komentáre k nî
Sefer jecira. Základní dílo kabaly pipisované patriarchovi Abrahamovi.
Sefer jecira od rabiho Abrahama ben Davida z Posquières (Raavad, 1125–1198).
Sefer jecira od rabi Izáka Slepého (Jicchak Sagi-Nehor – 1160–1235), syna Raavada z Posquières.
Sefer jecira od rabi Mose Ben Nachmana (aka Nachmanides, Ramban, 1194–1270).
Sefer jecira od rabi Jicchaka z Aka (1250–1340)
Sefer jecira od rabi Mose Kordovera (Ramak, 1522-1570)
Vyklad Maase Beresit na základ Sefer jeciry od rabi Elijahu z Vilna (GRA – Gaon rabi Elijahu, 1720–1797). Gra version.

Abulafia, Abraham

Baeck, Leo

Leo Baeck's Commentary: http://www.wbenjamin.org/baeck.html

Leo Baeck: SEFER YETZIRAH

Blumenthal, David

Commentary by Dr. David Blumenthal

Commentary from sy231theory.com

Servants Of the Light: Commentary on SY

Gabirol, Solomon Ibn

Selected Poems translated by Peter Cole (pdf file): pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s6933.pdf

Theosophy Online: http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/SolomonIbnGabirol.htm

Life and Works: http://www.kabbalahsociety.org/papers/shahaf1.htm

Hagel, GWF

On Kabbalah and Gnosticism: http://www.wbenjamin.org/hegel_kabbalah.html

Kalisch, Isidor

http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/sy/index.htm

Kaplan, Ariyeh

Azamra: Sepher Yetsira & Kaplan's Commentary

Sefer Yetzirah: Kaplan's Gra Version

Sefer Yetzirah: Short Version (Kaplan)

Sefer Yetzirah: GRA trans. Aryeh Kaplan

Luria, Isaac

Kabbalah Home Page of the Bnei Baruch

Lone Star Kabbala

hhttp://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/LurianicKabbalah.htm

Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942)

Sefer Yetzirah and Excerpts from Saadia's Commentary

Saadia's commentary on Sefer Yetzirah: http://www.wbenjamin.org/saadia.html

Scholem, Gershom

Sepher Yetsira w/Commentary by G. Scholem

The Sefer Yetzirah: G. Scholem Translation

Suares, Carlos

http://www.psyche.com/psyche/yetsira/sy_text.html

Tzadok, Ariel Bar R.

Torat HaKabbalah, The Teachings of the Kabbalah: www.green-rings.net/frosty/library/jewish%2520literature/books
%2520and%2520pamphlets/torat%2520hakabbalah.doc 

Westcott, W. Wynn (1887)

Westcott Sepher Yetsira

Westcott S.Y.

Sepher Yetzira (Westcott w/introduction)

Westcott Sepher Yetsira

Hebrew Texts

Sefer jecira a komentáre k nî
Sefer jecira. Základní dílo kabaly pipisované patriarchovi Abrahamovi.
Sefer jecira od rabiho Abrahama ben Davida z Posquières (Raavad, 1125–1198).
Sefer jecira od rabi Izáka Slepého (Jicchak Sagi-Nehor – 1160–1235), syna Raavada z Posquières.
Sefer jecira od rabi Mose Ben Nachmana (aka Nachmanides, Ramban, 1194–1270).
Sefer jecira od rabi Jicchaka z Aka (1250–1340)
Sefer jecira od rabi Mose Kordovera (Ramak, 1522-1570)
Vyklad Maase Beresit na základ Sefer jeciry od rabi Elijahu z Vilna (GRA – Gaon rabi Elijahu, 1720–1797). Gra version.

Sepher Yetzirah: Gra in Hebrew

Sepher Yezira: Hebrew Text w/comments

Shoshana Tekhelet The Holy Sefer Yetzira, with an original translation and commentary, By Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok. Hebrew text.

Sefer Yetzirah- (Book of Formation) Find several hard back editions. The first book of Kabbalah ever written. With the most famous commentators in Hebrew.

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