"Ma'ohr" (luminary), "Kli" (vessel) and "Shefa" (pleanty) redirect here. For vessels in the Talmud, see Keilim.
For other uses, see Ohr (disambiguation) and KLI.
Ohr (Hebrew: אור, romanized: ʾor, lit. 'Light', plural: אורותʾoroṯ) is a central Kabbalistic term in Jewish mysticism. The analogy to physical light describes divine emanations. Shefa "flow" (שפעšep̄aʿ) and its derivative, hashpaʾa "influence" (השפעהhašpāʿā), are sometimes alternatively used in Kabbalah and medieval Jewish philosophy to mean divine influence, while the Kabbalists favour ʾor because its numerical value equals ר״ז, a homonym for רזrāz "mystery".[1]ʾOr is one of the two main Kabbalistic metaphors for understanding God, along with the other metaphor of the human soul-body relationship for the sefirot.[2]
Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]
^Mystical Concepts in Chassidism, Kehot pub., chapter 1 "Anthropomorphism and Metaphors": (i Anthropomorphism, ii The Man-Metaphor, iii The Light-Metaphor)
^Caption to this illustration on p.2 of Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, Oxford University Press
![Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]](/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tree_of_Life%2C_Medieval.jpg/120px-Tree_of_Life%2C_Medieval.jpg)
Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]
Galilean Meron. "Nature" HaTeva is the numerical value of Elohim, the name of immanent light. The Tetragrammaton transcendence creates through it. Kabbalistically, in Israel the concealment is less severe![Latin translation of Shaare Orah שערי אורה "The Gates of Light", one of the most influential presentations of the Kabbalistic system, by Joseph Gikatilla in the 13th century[3]](/wiki/File:Tree_of_Life,_Medieval.jpg?lang=en)
