Gershom Sholem

He does not use the Hebrew word for "create," but words that mean "engrave" (is this to designate the contours or the form?) and "hew," as one hews a stone out of the rock. page 27

32 was a number of significance for Pythagoreans according to Sholem page 26

beli mah without anything, without actuality ideal

1o sefirot neo pythogorean but letters from with Judaism itself "It is encountered in a statement of the Babylonian amora, Rab, originally of Palestine. page 29

Confusion of script and writing, page 277 Isaac the Blind

The relation of script and language is a consitutive principle for the Kabbalah. In the spritual world, every act of writing, and conversely every writing is potential speech, destined to become audible. The speaker engraves as it were, the three dimensional space of the word on the plane of the ether. The script, which for the philologist is only a secondary and otherwise rather useless image of real speech, is for the kabbalist the true repository of its secrets. The phonographic principle of a natural transposition of speech into script and vice versa manifests itself in teh Kabbalah in the idea that the sacred letters themselves are the lineanments and signs taht the modern phoneticist would want upon his disc. The creative word of God is legitimately stamped upon just these sacred lines. Beyond language lies the unarticulated reflection, the pure thought, the nute profundity one could say, in which the nameless reposes. From hokhmah on there opens up, identical with the world of teh sefiroth, the world of the pure name as a primordial element of language. page 277