The Concept Of letters in the spiritual heritage of Judaism has always had a specific meaning, disclosing their in terms of macro-microcosm as form of information system of cells, present at each hierarchical level of all life, in the scale-numerical ratio to one another and entering the required qualitative-transformative relationship between a. Of these compounds, and add up all the elements of the tvarnyh worlds. This concept in historical time experienced a variety of local akcentuaciû, According to the thematic relevance and spiritual phase in each period. It should be noted, that said the approach is not a priority of mysticism as something isolated from the general spirit of tradition in General, for special attention to the connection of letters, členeniû words and symbolic meanings of density stood at sources of interpretation and comment on the text of the written Torah in its relation with the oral teachings. In summary we will focus on several historical periods, ensuring that the. conceptual unity of approaches to the letter and its relationship with modern trends of the new scientific paradigm.
When the topic of letters is in the focus of the Jewish tradition, It is very difficult to identify for obvious and well known in Jewish studies in written reasons, there is the oral Torah teachings, encoded in written text and essential for understanding the past. Therefore, as adopted, We will begin with early mystical texts, some dating back from the time of the second temple before the era of gaonov (last 1/3 first. 000. BC. e. -first. ? first. 000. n. e.) and belonging to Literature Hall (sifrut hèjhalot) -part of the kabalistic section Maasè Merkava (7). Data sources, as outlined in the science, provide unique material for internal human space exploration, because they are "formatted" vizionerskim experience of contemplative practices "ascent to the divine throne" and "conceptual training" for mastering these practitioners. We'll focus on two thematic sections of this literature:
1 adept at climbing the heavenly palaces to the 7th, meeting with arhontami, Introduction to the secrets of;
2 hvalitelnye hymns Gd, fire the Transfiguration of man.
The first section is of particular interest to this research represents the journey of man (which is often one of the Tannaim of Rabbi Ishmael) to the throne, venčaûŝeesâ a meeting with the Prince of the divine Countenance (at first it was Surya, then Mitatron), opening vizioneru the mysteries of celestial and earthly hierarchies, as well as letters, which they were created. While the gates to overcome each of the Heavenly Palace adept is obliged to call Angel-custody code word-master key (secret, correctly assembled letters Name), When the goal is achieved, hidden secrets of letters become the property of meditatora, which contemplates "written by the finger of God a fiery steel at Crown <crowning> his head "characters, “…the heavens and the Earth,.. Sea and river,.. mountains and hills,.. stars and planets,.. Lightning and winds,.. voices of Thunder, snow and hail,.. the storm and the storm; letters, that created all the needs of the world and all hierarchies <in another list-secrets> Start < ZD. creations (Bereshit)>. Each letter of the blooms that like lightning, something like a torch, the burning fire, the Sunrise, The Moon and the stars " (8). In this passage are two ideas: the creation of the world the letters-this motif is placed in the center of Creation fundamental to Jewish mysticism text Sefer Yetzirah "," or "Book of creation" (9), and the relationship of letters with the "Crown of the Almighty" (from which the, According to Šolema, the expression "enjoy the Crown", i.e. properly be the divine names) (10), as widely reported in the tradition of the Haggadah, What can be found in several collections of Midrash Yalkut Shimoni, Ocar HA-midrashim, etc. (11), also specially devoted to mystical Midrash "Letters of Rabbi Akiva and his aggadičeskie variations. Interesting is also the term mafrihot – "blossom" (about letters), followed by images of fire and light configurations (Lightning, Torch, flame etc), draws a picture of the unfolding of the Fiery flower petals overlapping Center, that can be considered the symbol of a concentric ring of reticulated structures (12).
