Sephirah
Chochmah
Right-hand of the upper pair, joined to Binah by the Mother letter Shin across the top horizontal. Four lines: the diagonal up to Keter, Shin across, a diagonal down to Tiferet, and the Double Gimel dropping vertically to Chesed. The vertical is the arrangement's claim that Chochmah's line of descent is Chesed and not Tiferet.
1 correspondence · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Divine name Yah, first attested 1200 BCE.
Divine name
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Yah
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1200 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
י"ה — the Ninth 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.
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 — Exodus 15:2
Where the name stands in scripture: עׇזִּי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ.
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Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Sha'arei Orah, c. 1290 — Sha'arei Orah, Ninth Gate, Second Sefirah
The gate's opening formula names the sefirah and the name together.