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# esoteric

«esoteric» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Understood by only a few people who have special…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Understood by only a few people who have special knowledge, and kept secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/esoteric/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is regarded as a secret mystical teaching, studied by mystics as a source of hidden lore.

### examples

- It has been the subject of deep study, not only to the mystic, who regarded it as the source ot esoteric lore, but also to the philosopher and the Talmudist. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/esoteric/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

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