SEFER YETZIRAH -- The Book Of Creation (In Theory and Practice) Revised Edition by Aryeh Kaplan: A Guest Review by Robert John Huffine

For the few who are in the ''know'' about what this really is pertaining to, is important to fully understand what's going on here. There really is no "Golem-Making" of any sort going on. It's all a Midrashic-Remez-Sod interpretation by way of a Plaintext approach to teaching the various hermeneutically-based insights into Scriptures of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). The various ''methods'' of "Golem-Making" are really a Midrash on the deeply-involved processes of "Code Making" and "Code Searching" Tools for extricating Plaintext (Peshat) insights into the Tanakh's arrangements of "Letters, Words and Phrases" and their various ''weavings'' of inter-connections in logical and concise formats for others to follow, easily and without hindrances. Churchianity types and "Messy" Messianics view this kind of material as though it were Witchcraft. But historically, that's part of what keeps them in the Darkness: Not being able or willing to sift through the wreckage of Hollyweird's aVersion of REAL Biblical Kabbalah Studies. But all too often, such folks eschew Talmudic Reasoning or other Historic Writings that would otherwise even verify their own Faith. With 398 Pages, a number of illustrations and charts, there are extensive notes referenced to the back of the book. It's Introduction alone holds 120 Notes just for itself. (Weiser Books, 1997)