caloric

noun

«caloric» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

In this commentary it is used for the heat or fire that is hidden in water.

Interpretation. The commentator uses old science to explain how fire, water and air balance each other. The tradition of Sefer Yetzirah sees the three mother letters as these three elements.

Meaning

An old word for heat thought of as a kind of invisible fluid. tree →

Examples

41) Our author means to say that the water has a great disposition to unite itself with the caloric, thus for instance is the fire latent in steam, but the air equipoises them. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

On Mova

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