Beriah

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Beriah is the Kabbalistic world of Creation, one of the four principal spiritual realms in Jewish mysticism.

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Label Occurrences
Beriah canonical 11

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Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kabbalistic world
concept in Jewish mysticism
spiritual realm
alsoCalled Arba Olamot
surface form: Olam HaBeriah

Four Worlds
surface form: World of Creation
associatedWith sefirah Binah
surface form: Sefirah of Binah

intellect
Arsh (Divine Throne)
surface form: throne of God
category Jewish esoteric concept
cosmologicalLevel higher spiritual world
describedIn Kabbalah
surface form: Kabbalistic literature

Safed Kabbalah
surface form: Lurianic Kabbalah

Zohar
distinguishedFrom Assiyah
surface form: Asiyah

Atzilut
Yetzirah
epistemicStatus metaphysical realm
follows Atzilut
framework Arba Olamot
surface form: Lurianic Four Worlds schema
hasAspect world of the Divine throne
world of understanding
hasNameInHebrew בְּרִיאָה
inhabitedBy higher angels
isAbove Assiyah
surface form: Asiyah

Yetzirah
isBelow Atzilut
languageContext Hebrew
meaningOfName Creation
notIdenticalTo physical universe
partOf Kabbalah
surface form: Four Worlds in Kabbalah
precedes Yetzirah
rankInFourWorlds second
relatedDoctrine Seder Hishtalshelut
roleInCosmology world of creation ex nihilo from Atzilutic emanation
spiritualFunction transition between pure divinity and formed creation
tradition Jewish mysticism
transliteration Beriah self-link
usedIn Hasidic thought
Kabbalistic cosmology

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Etz Chaim hasKeyTerm Beriah
Four Worlds hasWorld Beriah
Beriah transliteration Beriah self-link
Atzilut above Beriah
Atzilut influences Beriah
Yetzirah precededBy Beriah
Yetzirah contrastedWith Beriah
Arba Olamot hasComponent Beriah
Assiyah contrastedWith Beriah
sefirah Binah kabbalisticWorld Beriah
subject surface form: Binah