cosmos
noun
In Jewish tradition
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah pictures the cosmos as formed from the Hebrew letters, which are arranged and combined to make all things.
Meaning
The universe seen as an orderly and harmonious whole. tree →
Examples
- Who is the one dragging the Twenty-Two Letters through the water and driving them through the cosmos—God, or man?] (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- Later cosmogonists, such as Ovid, represent it as the confused, shapless mass, out of which the universe was formed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- The five symbols or elements 1, 11, 111, 1111, 0, were supposed to symbolize the whole cosmos which was believed to be in harmony with a decimal system of notation expressible by these symbols.' (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «cosmos» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «cosmos» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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