Further Thoughts on the Origins ofSefer yesirah

Abstract

Sefer yesirah at the Time of its Emergence Despite the dozens of manuscripts, commentaries, translations, and studies devoted to it, the origins of Sefer yesirah (hereafter SY) remain intractably obscure.1 This seemingly impenetrable opacity stands in sharp contrast to its public impact, which has long tended to attract superlatives. Thus, with what came to be typical hyperbole, Louis Ginzberg asserted that [SY] had a greater influence on the development of the Jewish mind than almost any other book after the completion of the Talmud.2 Scholem's claim for SY, too, was phrased in the

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