Definition of "sefirot" [sefirot]

• Alternative spelling of sephirot. (noun)

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• "For the Kabbalah, not atoms or subatomic forces but the sefirot are the fundamental structures of the world of multiplicity."
• "The light that clothes itself in the vessels of the sefirot is the essence, like the ray of sunlight."
• "Here in the Hebrew version he gives the example of the Kabbalists who maintain that there are existents, namely the sefirot, whose rank is inferior to Ein Sof (the infinite source) from which they emanate, but superior to the movers of the celestial spheres."