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Sefer Yetzirah

The Book of Creation: an early, short Hebrew text on creation through ten numbers and twenty-two letters.

Also: Book of Formation

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

Sefer Yetzirah, of uncertain date in late antiquity, describes how God created the world through thirty-two paths of wisdom: ten sefirot, here meaning numbers or dimensions, and the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It became a foundation for later Kabbalah and inspired many commentaries.