Unit B1, p. 314, lines 23–25: ten sefirot, not nine or eleven. These are printed edition line numbers.
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Sefer Yetzirah: ten sefirot and a bounded count
The inspected Hebrew unit fixes a count of ten sefirot and invites examination; its edition lines are distinct from manuscript-image coordinates.
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 §ב1 / B1 · printed p. 314, lines 23–25
- Edition or research reference
- Avishai Bar-Asher, The Earliest Extant Version of Sefer Yesirah, Tarbiz 89 (2023), edition p. 314; the joined-roll siglum is explained on p. 312.
- Review boundary
- The complete relevant printed page was rendered and inspected. The selected unit has not been assigned to an individual joined fragment through a fresh image collation.
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Babylon supplies a brief editorial paraphrase of the Hebrew. This is not a newly checked passage from Hayman’s English edition.
A second precise Hebrew unit is identified at B1, p. 314, printed lines 23–25.
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The edition fixes ten sefirot and calls for examination. Its counting instruction can be studied as a bounded textual claim.
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What remains to check
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- Hebrew University · Bar-Asher’s Hebrew edition, p. 314 ↗
Avishai Bar-Asher, Tarbiz 89 (2023), pp. 231–323. Printed p. 314 is PDF page 88; selected unit B1 uses edition lines 23–25.
Consulted scholarly edition page - Cambridge · joined Sefer Yetzirah roll ↗
Ben Outhwaite, Genizah Fragments 50, October 2005. The joined roll and its three shelfmarks are physical context, not an image-level concordance for B1.
Institutional joined-fragment context
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Babylon Learning Centre. “Sefer Yetzirah: ten sefirot and a bounded count.” Passage Research Studio, revision 1, 5 November 2026. https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/research/passages/sefer-yetzirah-ten-sefirot/
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