yosher
Selected sense: linearity
Active senses: linearity, the upright configuration, the linear mode
Rationale: yosher rendered ‘linearity’ (or ‘the linear configuration’) throughout — the second mode, the sefirot as an upright line in the figure of supernal Adam, three columns, 248 limbs. CRITICAL: NOT ‘righteousness’ or ‘rectitude’ (the ethical homonym); here yosher is geometric-configurative. lexicon_ref null: page unauthored.
igul
Selected sense: circle
Active senses: circle, concentric ring, sphere
Rationale: igul / galgal rendered ‘circle’ / ‘wheel’ (galgal ha-Keter, the wheel of Keter; the concentric igulim graded by nearness to Ein Sof). The contrast circle-mode vs line-mode is the chapter’s whole subject. ‘Cycle’/‘orbit’ forbidden. lexicon_ref null: page unauthored.
kav
Selected sense: the-line
Active senses: the line, the ray, the thread of light
Rationale: ha-kav rendered ‘the line’ — the same line that forms the circles also spreads in linearity (yosher); rank is read off nearness to the head of the line. ‘Beam’/‘column’ forbidden. lexicon_ref null: page unauthored.
ein-sof
Selected sense: the-infinite
Active senses: the Infinite, the Endless, the prior condition
Rationale: Rendered ‘the Infinite.’ Rank in both modes is defined by proximity to Ein Sof (the outermost circle / the head of the line is most joined to it). ‘God’ forbidden.
Lexicon: lexicon/ein-sof
sefirot
Selected sense: emanations
Active senses: emanations, configured aspects of the divine, the ten
Rationale: sefirot transliterated in the body (eser sefirot); specific sefirot (Keter, Chokhmah, Binah) kept transliterated with the circle/wheel they name. The ‘configured-aspects’ sense is active where Vital discusses the two configurations (circles / linear Adam). ‘Numbers’ forbidden.
Lexicon: lexicon/sefirot
adam-kadmon
Selected sense: adam-kadmon
Active senses: Primordial Man, the Primordial Human, Adam Kadmon
Rationale: A”K transliterated ‘Adam Kadmon’ (the ten circles of Adam Kadmon, forward-referenced to the third branch). The yosher figure (‘the supernal Adam,’ tzelem adam) is the linear configuration OF Adam Kadmon. NOT ‘the first man.’ lexicon_ref null: page unauthored.
olamot
Selected sense: worlds
Active senses: worlds, the four worlds, realms
Rationale: olamot rendered ‘worlds’ (kol ha-olamot, all the worlds within the void, graded by nearness to Ein Sof down to the material world at the center). ‘Universes’/‘planes’ forbidden.
Lexicon: lexicon/olamot
behinot
Selected sense: aspects
Active senses: aspects, gradations, modal aspects
Rationale: bechinah rendered ‘aspect’ — the organizing word of the whole chapter (bechinah aleph = circles, bechinah bet = linearity; the two behinot of the sefirot). ‘Categories’ forbidden.
Lexicon: lexicon/behinot
sod
Selected sense: secret
Active senses: secret, the mystical level (of scriptural exegesis), hidden meaning
Rationale: be-sod tzelem Adam rendered ‘in the secret of the figure of Adam’ — marking the esoteric (sod) register of the anthropic configuration. ‘Mystery’ avoided.
Lexicon: lexicon/sod
kelippot
Selected sense: husks
Active senses: husks, shells, the other side (sitra ahra)
Rationale: kelippin / kelippah (Aramaic in the cited Zohar, Hebrew in Vital’s gloss) rendered ‘husks’ — here in the pre-shevirah, structural-covering sense (‘how many husks cover the brain’; the emanated as ‘husks and garments’ to Ein Sof), NOT yet the realm-of-evil sense of the post-breaking kelippot. ‘Peels’/‘skins’ forbidden. The perspectival inversion (what is husk to us is brain in itself) is the doctrinal crux (see ambiguity).
Lexicon: lexicon/kelippot
mocha
Selected sense: brain
Active senses: brain, the supernal brain
Rationale: mocha (Aramaic) / moach rendered concretely ‘brain’ (the inner brain that the husks cover; Ein Sof as the ‘inner brain’ to all the emanated). The configurative-not-corporeal frame is carried in apparatus, not by abstracting the image. ‘Mind’/‘intellect’ forbidden.
Lexicon: lexicon/mocha
abba
Selected sense: abba
Active senses: the supernal Father (Abba), Abba
Rationale: Abba transliterated in the closing partzuf-sequence (Arikh Anpin within Abba and Imma). The developed five-partzuf scheme is forward-referenced (the fourth branch); idra-theosophy co-applies for its handling. ‘Father’/‘god the father’ forbidden (Trinitarian import).
Lexicon: lexicon/abba
imma
Selected sense: imma
Active senses: the supernal Mother (Imma), Imma
Rationale: Imma transliterated, paired with Abba in the partzuf-sequence. ‘Mother’/‘the goddess’/‘the divine feminine’ forbidden; Imma is a sefirotic configuration.
Lexicon: lexicon/imma
devekut
Selected sense: cleaving
Active senses: cleaving, attachment, clinging to the divine
Rationale: davuk (the wheel of Keter is ‘joined’ / cleaving to Ein Sof more than all) rendered with the d-v-q force as ‘joined to’ — proximity-as-cleaving is the rank principle in the circle-mode. ‘Union’ avoided.
Lexicon: lexicon/devekut