Sefer ha-Bahir 192-193 -- the kept teachings and the stone of Israel
Sefer ha-Bahir · The Book of Brilliance
ספר הבהיר · קצב-קצג
Abraham and the grade of the righteous. Because Abraham kept even “My teachings” — the rulings and dialectics of the heavenly academy, the whole Oral Torah (§ 192); and the stone of Israel nourished from the supernal righteous one (Yesod), the great hidden light, “socheret,” with the stone “dar” set below, and the horns as the five fingers of the right hand (§ 193).
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.
Controlled terms noted in this passage: tzaddik (rendered as yesod). For each, the apparatus carries the sense set and the reason for the rendering chosen.