Sefer Yetzirah, the Cube of Space, and the Emergence of ... - Maqom

Additionally, as mentioned before, limitation and delimitation are important parts of thecreative process. This is eloquently expressed in Job 26 and Psalm 104.“He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.He closes in the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it. He hassurrounded the waters with bounds, at the boundary between light and darkness.”(Job 26:8-10)“Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move forever. Youcovered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hurried away. Theywent up the mountains; they flowed down the valleys to the place which youappointed for them. You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that theymight not again cover the earth.” (Psalm 104:5-9)And finally, we come in verse 2:2 to the word transformed (hey-mem-yud-resh-nun)which can also be translated as substituted or exchanged. When properly understood, thisis something we see in nature all the time. In other words, when nature finds a successfulpattern, it tends to use that pattern over and over again. For example, we see spiralshapes not only in the largest galaxies, but also in the smallest seashells, and thebranching pattern of a particular tree is not only present in its largest branches, but also inthe smallest twigs. On a personal level, we apply the same psychological pattern to avariety of situations we may find ourselves in. Thus, if we picture ourselves as a13