Analogies to Kabbalah

[treich at midway.uchicago.edu]

Will Wagers wrote:

>In Jewish myth, the Golem is created by rearranging the letters of
>the Torah. In the Kabbalah, the Sefiroth appear in the form of Primal
>Man; the letters of the divine name are the image of the Ancient of
>Ancients; the Torah is considered as a living organism.
>
>I am interested in analogous concepts in the Vedas, Puranas, etc.

I agree that there is much room for comparison.  Just another reference: 

Hananya Goodman, ed. Between Jerusalem and Banares, Comparative Studies in
Judaism and Hinduism, Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.


Tamar Reich
The University of Chicago
South Asian Languages and Civilization
treich at midway.uchicago.edu