Hochmah

* 1Hochmah (Hebrew) Also transliterated as Chochmah, Hhokhmah, Chokmah, etc Wisdom the second Sephirah, regarded in the Qabbalah as the first emanation from the first Sephirah, Kether Wisdom is considered as a masculine active potency, and is therefore called 'Ab, the Father, to whom Binah, the Mother and third of the Sephiroth, is united It is the head of one of the three pillars in the Sephirothal Tree, called the Column of Benignity, Mercy, or Grace, placed on the right side Its Divine Name is Yah (a substitute for the mystery-name Iao), whereas the Divine Name for the third Sephirah is the so-called four-lettered name or Tetragrammaton IHVH -- Jehovah Among the angelic hosts it is represented by the 'ophanim, the wheels of Ezekiel's vision In its human application, Hochmah is represented as infilling the skull and brain, and less accurately as corresponding to the right shoulder "Wisdom generates all things By means of the 32 paths, Wisdom is spread throughout the universe, it gives to everything form and measure" (Zohar iii, 290a) Chochmah, Chockmah See HOCHMAH {SD Index = Hokhmah}