用語集
本書が原語のまま残す語。訳せば意味が平板になる場合、語はそのまま置かれ、代わりに説明されます。
- מַלְכוּתMalchus / Malchut
- Kingship; the tenth Sefirah — the receiver in whom reception becomes response.keep
- סְפִירָהSefirah / Sefiros
- A distinct mode by which Divine light is revealed in relation to worlds.keep
- אֵין סוֹףEin Sof
- The Infinite. Prior to every distinction, including masculine and feminine.keep
- כֶּתֶרKeter
- Crown; the will that precedes intellect.keep
- חָכְמָהChochmah
- The flash of insight before it is developed.keep
- בִּינָהBinah
- Understanding; the womb in which insight is given breadth.keep
- דַּעַתDaas
- Knowing as connection, not merely as information.keep
- חֶסֶדChesed
- Overflowing kindness.keep
- גְּבוּרָהGevurah
- Restraint, measure, the strength that withholds.keep
- תִּפְאֶרֶתTiferes
- Harmony; beauty as the reconciliation of Chesed and Gevurah.keep
- נֶצַחNetzach
- Endurance, victory, persistence.keep
- הוֹדHod
- Splendour; acknowledgement, the yielding that is not defeat.keep
- יְסוֹדYesod
- Foundation; the channel that gathers and transmits.keep
- שְׁכִינָהShechinah
- The indwelling Divine presence — the presence that goes into exile rather than leave.keep
- חַוָּה קַדְמוֹנָהChavah Kadmonah
- The primordial feminine orientation; an original synthesis offered for contemplation, not a received authority.keep
- אָדָם קַדְמוֹןAdam Kadmon
- The primordial configuration of Divine intention.keep
- אוֹר יָשָׁרor yashar
- Direct light — the descending current.keep
- אוֹר חוֹזֵרor chozer
- Returning light — the current after it has turned.keep
- צִמְצוּםtzimtzum
- Concealment that makes room. Not literal Divine absence.keep
- בִּטּוּלbittul
- Self-nullification: the end of self-authorship, not of self.keep
- יֵשׁyesh
- Somethingness; the experience of independent existence.keep
- דִּירָה בְּתַחְתּוֹנִיםdirah betachtonim
- A dwelling in the lowest realms — the purpose of creation.keep
- תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָבTorah Shebiksav
- The Written Torah.keep
- תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּהTorah Shebe'al Peh
- The Oral Torah — identified with Malchus.keep
- תְּפִלָּהtefillah
- Prayer; the world speaking back.keep
- תְּשׁוּבָהteshuvah
- Return — not repair of a fault, but the self returned to its Source.keep
- גְּאֻלָּהGeulah
- Redemption.keep
- גָּלוּתgalus
- Exile — read here as gestation, never as destiny.keep
- מָשִׁיחַMoshiach
- The anointed king; Malchus coming of age.keep
- כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵלKnesses Yisrael
- The collective soul of Israel — the great receiver.keep
- בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁBeis HaMikdash
- The Temple; Malchus made architecture.keep
- מַלְכֻיּוֹתMalchuyos
- The Rosh Hashanah blessings in which kingship is accepted from below.keep
- שַׁבָּתShabbos
- The seventh day; the queen who receives the week.keep
- אֱמוּנָהemunah
- Faithfulness — closer to loyalty in the dark than to belief in the light.keep
- פָּנִים / אֲחוֹרַיִיםpanim / achorayim
- Face and back — relation turned toward, or turned away.keep
- לֵית לָהּ מִגַּרְמַהּ כְּלוּםleis lah m'garmah klum
- “She has nothing of her own.” The paradox the whole essay turns on.keep
- לְךָ ה׳ הַמַּמְלָכָהLecha Hashem hamamlachah
- “To You, Hashem, is the kingdom.”keep
- סוֹף מַעֲשֶׂה בְּמַחֲשָׁבָה תְּחִלָּהsof maaseh b'machshavah techilah
- “Last in deed, first in thought.”keep
- נָעוּץ סוֹפָן בִּתְחִלָּתָןna'utz sofan b'techilasan
- “Their end is driven into their beginning.”keep