Yesod
{{Short description|Ninth emanation in Kabbalah}}
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Yesod (Hebrew: יְסוֹד Yəsōḏ, Tiberian: Yăsōḏ, "foundation"){{Cite book |last=Khan |first=Geoffrey |title=The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. |publisher=Open Book Publishers |year=2020 |isbn=978-1783746767}}{{Cite web |title=Strong's Hebrew Concordance - 3247. yesod |url=https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3247.htm}} is a sephirah or node in the kabbalistic Tree of Life, a system of Jewish philosophy.{{cite book|last1=Franck|first1=Adolphe|title=The Kabbalah|url=https://archive.org/details/kabbalahreligiou00fran|url-access=limited|date=1967|publisher=University Books|location=Secaucus, New Jersey|pages=[https://archive.org/details/kabbalahreligiou00fran/page/n71 26]–27 ff|edition=Second printing}} Yesod, located near the base of the Tree, is the sephirah below Hod and Netzach, and above Malkuth (the kingdom). It is seen as a vehicle allowing movement from one thing or condition to another (the power of connection).{{cite book|last1=Ashcroft-Nowicki|first1=Dolores|title=The Shining Paths|date=1983|publisher=The Aquarian Press|location=England}} Yesod, Kabbalah, and the Tree of Life are Jewish concepts adopted by various philosophical systems including Christianity, New Age Eastern-based mysticism, and Western esoteric practices.{{cite book|last1=Fortune|first1=Dion|title=The Mystical Qabalah|date=1935|publisher=Samuel Weiser, Inc|location=York Bach, Maine|isbn=0-87728-596-9|page=1|edition=1984 American paperback}}
Jewish Kabbalah
According to Jewish Kabbalah, Yesod is the foundation upon which God has built the world. It also serves as a transmitter between the sephirot above, and the reality below. The light of the upper sephirot gather in Yesod and are channelled to Malkuth below. In this manner, Yesod is associated with the sexual organs. The masculine Yesod collects the vital forces of the sephirot above, and transmits these creative and vital energies into the feminine Malkuth below. Yesod channels, Malkuth receives. In turn, it is through Malkuth that the earth is able to interact with the divinity.{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Moshe|title=Netzach, Hod, & Yesod|url=http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380802/jewish/Netzach-Hod-Yesod.htm|website=Kabbalah Online|publisher=Chabad.org|access-date=6 August 2015}}
Yesod plays the role of collecting and balancing the different and opposing energies of Hod and Netzach, and also from Tiferet above it, storing and distributing it throughout the world. It is likened to the 'engine-room' of creation. The Cherubim is the angelic choir connected to Yesod, headed by the Archangel Gabriel. In contrast, the demonic order in the qlippothic sphere opposite of Yesod is Gamaliel.
Other systems
=Esotericism=
In Western esotericism, according to the writer Dion Fortune, Yesod is considered to be "of supreme importance to the practical occultist...the Treasure House of Images, the sphere of Maya, Illusion."Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah, p. 1.
References
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External links
- [http://www.inner.org/sefirot/sefyesod.htm Sefirot Yesod (at Inner.org)]
- [http://www.aish.com/spirituality/kabbala101/Kabbala_21__-_Yesod_The_Translator.asp Yesod: The Translator] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509063454/http://www.aish.com/spirituality/kabbala101/Kabbala_21__-_Yesod_The_Translator.asp |date=2008-05-09 }}
- [http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=6237 Lessons in Tanya]