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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

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

World of Creation
linked to: Four Worlds
associatedWith Sefirah of Binah
linked to: sefirah Binah

intellect
throne of God
category Jewish esoteric concept
cosmologicalLevel higher spiritual world
describedIn Kabbalistic literature
linked to: Kabbalah

Lurianic Kabbalah
linked to: Safed Kabbalah

Zohar
distinguishedFrom Asiyah
linked to: Assiyah

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

Yetzirah
isBelow Atzilut
languageContext Hebrew
meaningOfName Creation
notIdenticalTo physical universe
partOf Four Worlds in Kabbalah
linked to: 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
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
Atzilut above Beriah
Atzilut influences Beriah
Yetzirah precededBy Beriah
Yetzirah contrastedWith Beriah
Arba Olamot hasComponent Beriah
Assiyah contrastedWith Beriah
Binah kabbalisticWorld Beriah
subject linked to: sefirah Binah