The editor’s siglum ק refers to the joined roll, not T-S K 21.56 alone. The edition marks supplied readings and proposed corrections; its punctuation and paragraph divisions are editorial.
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Sefer Yetzirah: twenty-two letters in a joined Genizah roll
A precise Hebrew edition unit enumerates twenty-two foundation letters as three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simple letters, using a joined Genizah roll.
Hebrew edition unit checked
- Physical witness
- Joined Cambridge roll: T-S K 21.56 + T-S 32.5 + T-S 12.813
- Selected unit
- Bar-Asher 2023 edition §א3 / A3 · printed p. 313, line 11
- Edition or research reference
- Avishai Bar-Asher, The Earliest Extant Version of Sefer Yesirah, Tarbiz 89 (2023), pp. 231–323; edition key p. 312 and selected unit p. 313.
- Review boundary
- The public scholarly edition and its apparatus key were inspected. The selected unit has not been collated to one individual physical fragment’s image.
Follow the reading
The English explanation here is Babylon’s editorial paraphrase of the Hebrew edition. It is not a quotation from Hayman’s 2004 English translation, whose selected witness coverage remains to be inspected.
The joined-roll siglum, apparatus key and Hebrew unit A3 / §א3, p. 313 line 11, have been identified and read.
Read the selected passage
The selected paragraph counts twenty-two foundation letters in groups of three, seven and twelve. Its edition reference can be fixed before discussing later correspondences or Babylon’s letter teaching.
Three separately catalogued Cambridge fragments form the roll used by the edition. The exact physical carrier of this unit still needs image collation. Bar-Asher’s argument about the recension’s priority is the scholar’s conclusion; this study does not present it as unanimous consensus.
What remains to check
Locate this unit on the individual fragment images; compare its readings with other recensions and obtain the selected Hayman pages before making an English-coverage claim.
Bring the learning forward
Begin with the actual groupings and let each letter invite careful attention. Babylon’s twenty-two-letter practice can then offer an authored exercise in perspective and choice. The edition does not by itself prove later planetary assignments or present-day psychological claims.
The Father and Yeshua remain Babylon’s devotional centre. This reflection offers perspective and a freely chosen next step; it makes no judgement about a reader’s worth.
Sources you can retrace
These source links identify the consulted catalogue, transcription, edition or scholarly quotation. Source images and complete modern translations remain at their original hosts.
- Hebrew University · Bar-Asher, Tarbiz 89 ↗
Avishai Bar-Asher, 2023, pp. 231–323. Edition key: printed p. 312 / PDF 86; selected unit: p. 313 / PDF 87.
Consulted Hebrew scholarly edition - Cambridge · joined Sefer Yetzirah roll ↗
Ben Outhwaite, Genizah Fragments 50, October 2005, Establishing reliability of texts.
Institutional confirmation of the joined fragments - Hayman · English edition route ↗
A. Peter Hayman, 2004. This study does not credit its English paraphrase to that uninspected passage.
Identified edition; selected pages not obtained
Cite this Babylon study
Babylon Learning Centre. “Sefer Yetzirah: twenty-two letters in a joined Genizah roll.” Passage Research Studio, revision 1, 5 November 2026. https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/research/passages/sefer-yetzirah-genizah-letters/
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