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# macrocosm

«macrocosm» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The whole great universe, seen as a large copy of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The whole great universe, seen as a large copy of the small world of a human being. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/macrocosm/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah describes the world in three parts: the universe, time (the year) and man. Commentators read God as the centre that gives each its power.

### examples

- 26) Here is meant: ethereal air, ethereal water, ethereal fire, the macrocosm, the courses of time and microcosm. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/macrocosm/#x1)
- Their development in three directions is pointed out, namely in the Macrocosm or Universe ; in the Year or in Time ; and in the Microcosm or Man. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/macrocosm/#x2)
- 42) The meaning is, as God is the centre of the Universe, so have the macrocosm, the seasons and temperature and the microcosm, their centres receiving power from the principal centre to regulate and rule. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/macrocosm/#x3)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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