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The main prayer hall of the Gwoździec synagogue was built before 1648. In the 18 th c. the vault was altered to acquire a tent-like structure. Respective polychrome parts were executed in 1652-1729. The 17 th -c. paintings were by Izaak Ber and his son, while the 18th-c. ones by Icchak son of Jehuda Lejba ha Kohen and Izrael Liśnicki, both from Jaryczów. The synagogue’s vault features three circles, broken with pendentives. The first circle is formed by the Signs of the Zodiac accompanied by their names and names of the Jewish months. An assumption can be made that these refer to the moment of the world’s creation. The second circle alludes to the Messianic Age, while the third continues with the praise of Adonai for his creative Power. The interpretation of the paintings has its source in two mystical texts: Sefer Yetzirah and Perek Shirah, while the structure of the whole synagogue may have been inspired by the Zohar. The paintings from the Gwoździec synagogue vault are hard to be unequivocally interpreted. The author’s suggested interpretations stems from the praise of the Lord as creator, His mercy, and care of the Chosen People.
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W artykule niniejszym twierdzę, że idea współmierności, czy też odpowiedniości, dziesięciu wymiarów przestrzennych teorii strun z dziesięcioma sefirot kabały zaproponowana przez Nathana Aviezera w jego artykule "Kabała, nauka i stworzenie Wszechświata" nie posiada podstaw w samych naukach kabalistycznych. Wydaje się, że pomysł Aviezera (posiłkującego się na kabałą luriańską), by utożsamić trzy górne sefirot z trzema zwykłymi wymiarami — wymiarami przez nas doświadczanymi (góra-dół, wschód-zachód, północ-południe) — a siedem dolnych sefirot z siedmioma wymiarami przestrzennymi, które — zgodnie z teorią strun — zwinęły się w procesie stworzenia, w rezultacie czego nie są przez nas postrzegane, jest odwróceniem doktryny kabalistycznej. Kabała utrzymuje bowiem, że trzy górne sefirot są transcendentne, ukryte i niepoznawalne, podczas gdy to w istocie siedem niższych sefirot jest poznawalnych i dostępnych ludzkiemu doświadczeniu.
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In this paper, I argue that the suggested parallelism of string theory’s ten spatial dimensions and the ten sefirot of Kabbalah presented by Nathan Aviezer in his article “Kabbalah, Science and the Creation of the Universe” has no basis on the strength of the kabbalistic teaching. It seems that Aviezer’s idea (derived from the lurianic Kabbalah) that the three upper sefirot are the counterpart of the three usual dimensions — dimensions that are familiar to us (up-down, east-west, north-south) — and the seven lower sefirot are the counterpart of the seven spatial dimensions that — according to the string theory — became compacted in the proccess of creation, and as a result are not perceived by us, is an act of diversion of the classical kabbalistic doctrine. Kabbalah claims, namely, that the first three sefirot are transcendent, unknowable and hidden, while it is in fact the lower seven sefirot that are cognizable and “open” to human experience.
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