alchemy of the Living

mirror puzzle

חִידַת מַרְאָה

Alkimyat haChayim starts with the process of solving the Chidat Mar’ah (חִידַת מַרְאָה, mirror puzzle.)

It involves cleaning and repositioning Mar’ot haDa’at (מַרְאוֹת הַדַּעַת, the mirrors of Knowing) so they can reflect reality with greater clarity.

By refining these inner mirrors, we learn to perceive and manipulate the Nehirat haOr (נְהִירַת הָאוֹר, the flow of Light), allowing us to progress further with Chidat Mar'ah.

Nehirat haOr is always revealing kulo lakol (כֻּלּוֹ לַכֹּל, all to all), but our individual configurations of Chidat Mar'ah leave some in matzav hatzel (מַצַּב הַצֵּל, the shadow state) while others experience matzav haOr (מַצַּב הָאוֹר, the Light state).

נְהִירַת הָאוֹר

the flow of Light

Nehirat haOr is always revealing kulo lakol, but it is re'iyat haNitzotz (רְאִיַת הַנִּיצוֹץ, the sight of the spark) that determines whether each of us "gets it" on an individual level.

Depending on the current configuration of Chidat Mar’ah, we may be experiencing matzav haOr in some regards and matzav hatzel in others.

But these are individual conditions representing how each spark of consciousness interprets its own Chidat Mar’ah, meaning that though Nehirat haOr is always revealing kulo lakol, there is no guarantee of nitzotz lenitzotz (נִיצוֹץ לְנִיצוֹץ, spark-to-spark) reflection.

רְאִיַת הַנִּיצוֹץ the sight of the spark

matzav haOr

the Light state מַצַּב הָאוֹר

מַצַּב הַצֵּל the shadow state

matzav hatzel

Newtonian alchemy

Isaac Newton, Navi haChayim, is one of the clearest demonstrations in history that inner alchemy reveals outer truth.

Though modernism remembers him as the father of physics, Newton privately wrote more about alchemy than mathematics or optics. Newton believed that the mind was a kli, a vessel, and that its shadows obscured the laws God had woven into creation.

By purifying the “mirrors” of perception within himself, he sought the hidden unity behind matter, light, and motion.

Newton solved his own Mirror Puzzle long before we gave it that name—his purification of Mar’ot haDa’at and groundbreaking work in Iyyun baShorashim Kedoshim inspires the Alkimyat haChayim we practice today.

עִיּוּן בַּשֹּׁרָשִׁים קְדוֹשִׁים study of sacred roots

Sufficiently completing Chidat Mar’ah allows haChayim to focus on Iyyun baShorashim Kedoshim, the study of sacred roots from which God manifests all zramim uhasatot (זְרָמִים וּהֲסָטוֹת, flows and deviations) mishoresh leshoresh (מִשֹּׁרֶשׁ לְשֹּׁרֶשׁ, from root to root).

Iyyun baShorashim Kedoshim

זְרָמִים וּהֲסָטוֹת flows and deviations

Iyyun baShorashim Kedoshim focuses on the structured study of zramim uhasatot. The default flows and natural laws of the universe dictate nearly everything, with God and Man alike catalyzing shifts that set reality on a new course.

מִשֹּׁרֶשׁ לְשֹּׁרֶשׁ from root to root

Earth and God operate along principles of mishoresh leshoresh, and so do haChayim.

From root to root is the movement of sacred becoming.

Reality unfolds by passing through its own foundations, each root giving rise to the next without ever ceasing to be what it is.

The sacred root can manifest endlessly—light, form, mind, prophecy, presence—because its power does not come from any single expression but from the continuity of its essence.

MiShoresh leshoresh is not a ladder upward but a cycle inward—every root reveals another aspect of the same sacred essence.

So long as the root remains the root, it may become anything:
all transformations are permitted, none threaten the truth beneath them.