Chapter 2

Sefer Yetzirah 2:1

There are twenty-two letters, stamina. Three of them, however, are tho first elements, fundamentals or mothers, seven double and twelve simple conso- their basis the balance. In one scale” is the merit and in the other criminality, which are placed in equilibrium by the tongue. The three fundamental hissing like the fire, there is among them, 8 breath of air which reconciles them.

Sefer Yetzirah 2:2

The twenty-two letters which form the stamina yana jiwa napa maa after having been. appointed and established by God, He combined, weighed and changed them, and formed by them all beings which are in existence, and all those which will be formed in all time to come.

Sefer Yetzirah 2:3

He established twenty-two letters, stamina, by the voice, formed by the breath of air and fixed them on five places in the human mouth, namely: gutturals,

Sefer Yetzirah 2:4

He fixed the twenty-two letters, stamina, on the sphere like a wall with two hundred and thirty-one gates, and turned the spheres forward and backward. For an illustration may serve tho three letters, There is nothing better than joy, and nothing worse than sorrow or plague.

Sefer Yetzirah 2:5

But how wasit done? He combined,” weighed and changed: the with all the other letters in succession, and all the others again with; 3 with all, and all again with 2; and so the whole series of letters.?! Hence it follows that there are two hundred and thirty-one? formations, and that every creature and every word emanated from one name.”

Sefer Yetzirah 2:6

He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, lossal pillars from intangible air. This has been shown by the example of combining the letter with all the other letters, and all the other letters with Aleph He% predetermined, and by speaking created every creature and every word by one name. For an illustration may serve the twenty-two cle- mentary substances by tho primitivo substance of