Divine name
YHVH written
YHVH written, Elohim read
2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Divine name of Binah, first attested 1200 BCE.
Divine name of
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Binah
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1200 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
נכתב יהו"ה ונקרא אלהים — the Eighth Gate of Sha'arei Orah. The name belongs to the SEFIRAH and not to any diagram: Gikatilla wrote around 1290, four centuries before this arrangement was printed, and was describing neither this tree nor any other. The gate verse and the name's locus are the same verse, and that is the point of it: the Tetragrammaton here carries Elohim's vowel-points, written one way and read another, which is exactly what Gikatilla says this sefirah's name does.
Evidence
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Moses for the Torah; the prophets and the men of the Great Assembly for the rest, Tanakh, c. 1200–165 BCE (composition); canon fixed by c. 100 CE — Habakkuk 3:19
Where the name stands in scripture: יֱהֹוִה אֲדֹנָי חֵילִי.
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Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Sha'arei Orah, c. 1290 — Sha'arei Orah, Eight Gate, Third Sefirah
The gate's opening formula names the sefirah and the name together.
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Binah
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1200 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
נכתב יהו"ה ונקרא אלהים — the Eighth Gate of Sha'arei Orah. Gikatilla organises by NAME rather than by sefirah and counts upward from Malchut, so the gate ordinal and the sefirah number run in opposite directions. The gate verse and the name's locus are the same verse, and that is the point of it: the Tetragrammaton here carries Elohim's vowel-points, written one way and read another, which is exactly what Gikatilla says this sefirah's name does.
Evidence
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Moses for the Torah; the prophets and the men of the Great Assembly for the rest, Tanakh, c. 1200–165 BCE (composition); canon fixed by c. 100 CE — Habakkuk 3:19
Where the name itself stands in scripture: יֱהֹוִה אֲדֹנָי חֵילִי. Cited by locator; the kabbalistic claim is about the name, not about this verse's plain sense.
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Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Sha'arei Orah, c. 1290 — Sha'arei Orah, Eight Gate, Third Sefirah
The gate's own opening formula names the sefirah and the name together.