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

eference, is the tree with both Hebrew and English names given for the sefirot. Also, wesee that in this final diagram the sefirot have achieved an existence independent of theletters while at the same time, we have the sefirot and the letters melded together into asingle schematic for representing the “thirty-two mystical paths of wisdom” that arementioned at the start of the Sefer Yetzirah. Furthermore, modern interpretations of theTree of Life suggest that the right side of the tree be interpreted in terms of intuitive,holistic right brain functions, the left side in terms of the more analytical, structureoriented left hemisphere of the brain, the bottom of the tree in terms of concrete physicalreality, and the top of the tree in terms of that which is more abstract and non-physical.One of the things we can notice immediately about this tree diagram is that there arethree paths connecting the left and right sides of the tree. These paths correspond to thethree mother letters, aleph, mem, and shin, mentioned in the Sefer Yetzirah, and theseletters represent, respectively, air, water, and fire. Thus, one good way to use this46