Sephirah
Keter
The apex, and one of only two nodes with three lines instead of four or more. Two diagonals fall away to Chochmah and Binah, and Beth runs straight down the middle pillar to Tiferet — so on this arrangement the Crown reaches the centre of the tree directly, without passing through the supernal pair.
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 Ehyeh, first attested 1200 BCE.
Divine name
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Ehyeh
Traditional- Who says so
- Not yet attributed to a school
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1200 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
אהי"ה — the Tenth 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 table says 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh', while Gikatilla's gate name is EHYEH: 'the tenth of the holy names is called Ehyeh; this is the name that rises to the head of Keter'. The longer form comes from Exodus 3:14. Its scriptural form and Gikatilla's sefirotic attribution are cited separately.
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 3:14
Where the name stands in scripture: אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה.
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Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Sha'arei Orah, c. 1290 — Sha'arei Orah, Tenth Gate, First Sefirah
The gate's opening formula names the sefirah and the name together.