{"id":16745,"date":"2014-06-01T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mylittleillumination-todayinkabbalah-alfa\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:12:56","slug":"mylittleillumination-todayinkabbalah-alfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mylittleillumination-todayinkabbalah-alfa\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16745 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mylittleillumination-todayinkabbalah-alfa\/attachment\/16746\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n4khx8A4Dm1tnvvhfo1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mylittleillumination.tumblr.com\/post\/83795200899\/todayinkabbalah-alfa-beta-shel-metatron-the\">mylittleillumination<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/todayinkabbalah.tumblr.com\/post\/83783887409\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-the-alphabet-of-metatron\">todayinkabbalah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alfa Beta Shel Metatron: The Alphabet of Metatron &#8211; the celestial scribe | Gershom Scholem<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gershom Scholem, the late great scholar of Jewish Mysticism, maintained the \u201cAlphabet of Metatron, the celestial scribe,\u201d to be the oldest of these angelic alphabets, which he mentioned \u201cis preserved in many manuscripts and came to the German Hasidim with the Babylonian Merkabah material.\u201d [<strong>Scholem, G. &amp; Werblowsky, R.J.Z.:<\/strong> <em>Origins of the Kabbalah<\/em>, Jewish Publication Society (Princeton University Press), Princeton 1990]<\/p>\n<p> Now, whilst the \u201c<em>Alphabet of Metatron<\/em>\u201d is perhaps more employed for mystical\/contemplative rather than magical\/talismanic purposes, I believe a closer investigation of the form of its component glyphs indicates that these magical alphabets are not composed of randomly chosen signs. In fact, judging the detailed analysis of this alphabet in a commentary which Scholem thought might have \u201cderived from the pen of Eleazar of Worms,\u201d it appears that each glyph is loaded with meaning.<\/p>\n<p> Unfortunately detailed delineations of Hebrew based magical alphabets are rare, and since we have really only one such analysis of a magical alphabet, i.e. the \u201c<em>Alphabet of Metatron<\/em>\u201d [<strong>Weinstock, I.:<\/strong> <em>Temirin: Mekorot u-Mech\u2019karim b\u2019Kabbalah v\u2019Chasidut<\/em>, Mosad ha-Rav Kook, Jerusalem 1972], which was written by an anonymous author some centuries back, we are still in the dark as to the primary reasoning behind the construction of most of these magical alphabets. Notwithstanding this, we can get greater clarity from a closer perusal of the \u201c<em>Alpha Beta shel Metatron<\/em>,\u201d regarding which we find the following details. The information shared here does not comprise a full translation of the text in question, but merely a description of some of the relevant material:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_19.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_19.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_21.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_21.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_22.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_22.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_23.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_23.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_28.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_28.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_30.html\">http:\/\/kabbalahselfcreation.blogspot.ro\/2013\/12\/alfa-beta-shel-metatron-alphabet-of_30.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mylittleillumination: todayinkabbalah: Alfa Beta Shel Metatron: The Alphabet of Metatron &#8211; the celestial scribe | Gershom Scholem Gershom Scholem, the late great scholar of Jewish Mysticism, maintained the \u201cAlphabet of Metatron, the celestial scribe,\u201d to be the oldest of these angelic alphabets, which he mentioned \u201cis preserved in many manuscripts and came to the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4m5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16747,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions\/16747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}