Ohr
Term in the Jewish mystical tradition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Ma'ohr" (luminary), "Kli" (vessel) and "Shefa" (pleanty) redirect here. For vessels in the Talmud, see Keilim.
For other uses, see Ohr (disambiguation) and KLI.
For other uses, see Ohr (disambiguation) and KLI.
Ohr (Hebrew: אור, romanized: ʾor, lit. 'Light', plural: אורות ʾoroṯ) is a central Kabbalistic term in Jewish mysticism. The analogy of physical light is used as a way of describing metaphysical divine emanations. Shefa "flow" (שפע) and its derivative, hashpoah "influence" השפעה), are sometimes alternatively used in Kabbalah, a term also used in Medieval Jewish philosophy to mean divine influence, while the Kabbalists favour Ohr because its numerical value equals ר״ז, a homonym for רז rāz "mystery".[1] It is one of the two main metaphors in Kabbalah for understanding God, along with the other metaphor of the human soul-body relationship for the sefirot.[2]
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