Sefer ha-Bahir 117 -- the LORD is a man of war
Sefer ha-Bahir · The Book of Brilliance
ספר הבהיר · קיז
A martial verse read into the highest grade. “The LORD is a man of war” rendered by the Targum as “master of the victory of battles” — so “man” is a sign, not literal; and “master” leads to the alef, the palace of holiness (heikhal ha-kodesh), the primal letter of thought in which the divine Name dwells (cf. §§ 68-70).
A provisional scholarly draft, released openly for correction and not yet reviewed by a credentialed editor. The Hebrew is reproduced verbatim from the Hebrew Wikisource transcription; the standard modern English translation (Kaplan, 1979) is under copyright.
This edition sets the verbatim Hebrew beside a fresh English rendering and a critical apparatus: a running commentary on the passage, notes on the controlled vocabulary and the rendering chosen for each term, and cross-references to the lexicon and to related sections. It is a provisional scholarly draft, released openly for correction and not yet reviewed by a credentialed editor.