In Genesis, God created Adam "in His own Image, in His own Likeness". However, since we believe that God has no image or likeness, Kabbalists understand this as saying that God makes Himself known to us in our likeness by ‘clothing’ Himself in the 10 Sefirot of Adam Kadmon - associated with the 4 Letters of the Name of God יהוה (YHVH).
The 4 Holy Names in this 'Tapestry' are the same in that they all derive from the 4 Letters of the Name YHVH, but they are different in how these Letters are spelled out (the names of the Letters Heh and Vav can be spelled in different ways in… more
