Ya'akov Zemakh. a hundred and forty examining the Zohar their mythos of the hardened spark, buzina de-kardinuta, engraving the contours of the universe within the primordial void. 2 the second one knowing is the doctrine of the sefirot, the hypostases by which God flows into current truth. Inherent within the doctrine of the sefirot is the concept that every one of them has a undeniable personality that's signified by way of assorted tropes and phrases of the Bible. different doctrines seem within the later strata of the Zohar, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, and Ra 'aya Meheimna. the 1st of those is the doctrine of the 4 worlds of production, which multiplies the sefirotic instructing throughout 4 worlds of emanation. 3 of those worlds, Briah (creation), Yezirah (formation), and Asiyyah (construction) are prepared based on the sefirotic constitution, whereas Azilut (emanation) is transcendent and abstracted, the unknowable maximum element of the divine. Azilut parallels the God of medieval philosophical Judaism. The doctrine of the sefirot as portrayed mainly sections of the Zohar coexists uneasily with the doctrine of the 4 worlds. three one other contribution of the later strata is the inquiry into the character of the sefirot: as to whether the sefirot are the essence of God or whether or not they basically function vessels into which the divine strength is poured. even if a few components of the Zohar posit that the sefirot themselves are the essence of God (Moshe Idel has pointed out those as "essentialist" doctrines), different components preserve that the sefirot are in simple terms vessels (in Idel's phrases, "instruments"). four nearly all of Safed kabbalists, together with Isaac Luria, followed the assumption of the sefirot as vessels from Moshe Cordovero. one more physique of training is the doctrine of the countenances, or parzufim, of the cosmic anthropos, Adam Kadmon. This instructing is elaborated within the Idrot and Sifra de-Zeniuta. those countenances are the most locus of the emanation of divinity into current fact. the connection of the parzufim to the sefirot is defined in several methods within the Idra Rabbah, Idra Zuta, and Sifra de-Zeniuta. those diversified cosmic theories complex the scholastic job of later kabbalists. within the Idrot, the anthropomorphic constitution of the countenances, the uneasy courting of the countenance culture to the sefirotic culture, and the allusions to misplaced fabrics depart the reader with a robust feel of unfinished company. for this reason, the significant exegetical challenge for the Zohar's classical interpreters was once that of reconciling the variation traditions to create a constant mystical theology. Interpreters have been additionally considering the minute research of the Zohar's symbolic language via shut cognizance to each nuance of the textual content. so much commentators mixed the variation principles of the various texts and created advanced, multileveled platforms that integrated the contradictory readings. daring software of sweeping theories used to be additionally priceless in resolving the contradictions of the resource fabric, as in Luria's mix of the Idra and Hormanuta traditions.