א״א · או״א · ז״א · זו״ן · א״ק · י״ס · ג״ר · חב״ד · חג״ת · נה״י · מ״ן · מ״ד · ע״ב · ס״ג · מ״ה · ב״ן · נרנח״י · רדל״א
ORIGINALLUR-V05
Lurianic Source Literacy · Lurianic Technical Vocabulary Bank
Required acronym bank
LUR-V05Lurianic Hebrew and AramaicTechnical language of Lurianic and Rashash sources
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
א״א · או״א · ז״א · זו״ן · א״ק · י״ס · ג״ר · חב״ד · חג״ת · נה״י · מ״ן · מ״ד · ע״ב · ס״ג · מ״ה · ב״ן · נרנח״י · רדל״א
Pedagogical transliterationArikh Anpin · Abba ve-Imma · Ze'ir Anpin · Adam Kadmon · and other source-controlled abbreviations
Plain meaningAn eighteen-item core bank whose expansions are individually attested in the registered Etz Chaim and Pri Etz Chaim corpus.
The registered Lurianic witnesses are unpointed. Transliteration and expanded acronyms are pedagogical layers; source spelling, abbreviations, brackets, and variant markers remain visible.WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Required acronym bank
This bank contains only forms with at least one audited occurrence in the registered corpus. It does not claim that a written abbreviation has only one possible meaning. In a Lurianic passage, א״א may mean Arikh Anpin; elsewhere the same letters may expand differently. The learner must verify expansion against work, sentence, and technical relation.
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Keep the form, reading, and meaning together.
Arikh Anpin · Abba ve-Imma · Ze'ir Anpin · Adam Kadmon · and other source-controlled abbreviations
READINGPedagogical reading guide
An eighteen-item core bank whose expansions are individually attested in the registered Etz Chaim and Pri Etz Chaim corpus.
MEANINGLurianic Hebrew and Aramaic
א״א = אריך אנפין · או״א = אבא ואמא · ז״א = זעיר אנפין · זו״ן = זעיר אנפין ונוקבא · א״ק = אדם קדמון · י״ס = י׳ ספירות · ג״ר = ג׳ ראשונות · חב״ד = חכמה בינה דעת · חג״ת = חסד גבורה תפארת · נה״י = נצח הוד יסוד · מ״ן = מיין נוקבין · מ״ד = מיין דכורין · ע״ב = שם ע״ב · ס״ג = שם ס״ג · מ״ה = שם מ״ה · ב״ן = שם ב״ן · נרנח״י = נפש רוח נשמה חיה יחידה · רדל״א = רישא דלא אתידע
EXAMPLES
Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.
א״א — Arikh (Arich) Anpin, the Long Countenance; the outer partzuf of Keter (626 audited occurrences) · או״א — Abba and Imma, the father and mother partzufim associated with Chokhmah and Binah (821 audited occurrences) · ז״א — Zeir Anpin, the Small Countenance; the partzuf comprising the six emotional sefirot (2242 audited occurrences) · זו״ן — Zeir Anpin and Nukva (476 audited occurrences) · א״ק — Primordial Man; the primordial configuration preceding the world of Atzilut (110 audited occurrences) · י״ס — The ten sefirot (545 audited occurrences) · ג״ר — The first three sefirot (486 audited occurrences) · חב״ד — Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge; the three intellectual faculties or sefirot (254 audited occurrences) · חג״ת — Lovingkindness, Strength, and Beauty; the three central emotional sefirot (459 audited occurrences) · נה״י — Victory, Splendor, and Foundation; the three lower channeling sefirot (1056 audited occurrences) · מ״ן — Feminine waters; an arousal rising from below (381 audited occurrences) · מ״ד — Masculine waters; an answering flow from above (109 audited occurrences) · ע״ב — The 72-value filling of the four-letter Divine Name (938 audited occurrences) · ס״ג — The 63-value filling of the four-letter Divine Name (771 audited occurrences) · מ״ה — The 45-value filling of the four-letter Divine Name (932 audited occurrences) · ב״ן — The 52-value filling of the four-letter Divine Name (768 audited occurrences) · נרנח״י — The five soul levels (49 audited occurrences) · רדל״א — The unknowable head; a designation of the highest head of Atik (31 audited occurrences)
SOURCE REFERENCE
Corpus-audited Lurianic abbreviation bank from Sefer Etz Chaim and Pri Etz Chaim
APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Source-specific guidance from the curriculum.
Learning objective
Expand a required core of Lurianic abbreviations while retaining context-sensitive ambiguity.
Technical parsing
Each entry is linked in the evidence file to occurrence counts and sample references. The bank excludes the one curated form unattested in the two-source pilot.
Practice
Expand all eighteen forms. Then choose א״א, מ״ן, ע״ב, and נרנח״י and state what contextual evidence would confirm each expansion.
Answer key
א״א = אריך אנפין; או״א = אבא ואמא; ז״א = זעיר אנפין; זו״ן = זעיר אנפין ונוקבא; א״ק = אדם קדמון; י״ס = י׳ ספירות; ג״ר = ג׳ ראשונות; חב״ד = חכמה בינה דעת; חג״ת = חסד גבורה תפארת; נה״י = נצח הוד יסוד; מ״ן = מיין נוקבין; מ״ד = מיין דכורין; ע״ב = שם ע״ב; ס״ג = שם ס״ג; מ״ה = שם מ״ה; ב״ן = שם ב״ן; נרנח״י = נפש רוח נשמה חיה יחידה; רדל״א = רישא דלא אתידע
Source notes
Primary controls: app/data/lurianic-abbreviations.json and app/data/lurianic-abbreviation-audit.json; 41 of 42 curated entries are attested, and this required subset uses only attested entries.
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