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# aether

«aether» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The bright, very thin air high up in the sky, above the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (aether; no plural in use; old use)

### meaning for a pupil

The bright, very thin air high up in the sky, above the clouds, which in old myths only the gods could breathe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah's study, the writer links aether with the idea of emptiness and zero, set beside the three elements and the letters. In the primary lessons: in myths and old stories, the pure upper air where the gods live, far above the clouds

### examples

- From a Pythagorean point of view the fifth element "aether" like infinity is only another name for vacuum.* Therefore, aether also is logically identical with zero (Com. above p. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/#x1)
- The gods breathed aether high above the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/#x2)
- Long ago people thought the sky was filled with aether. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/#x3)
- The bright aether shone above the mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aether» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aether/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.