Borges y la Hermenéutica de la Cábala

Taking the bond between words and things as starting point, this paper deals with Kabbalistic Hermeneutics as a recovering of the primal sense of that bond, i.e. not representation but domain and creation. Naming and creating come together into the sacred language, this languange in wich every book is written. The hermeneutical approach of kabblalist thinkers led to legends as legend of the golem, which not only recover this old sense of word-thing bond, but presupposed an ars combinatoria, which remains in some contemporary interpretations in scientific genetics. Borges recollected a great amount of metaphores from Jewish culture and recombined them in his writings. This paper search to analize a group of those metaphores showing how they took influenced in Borges’ literary style and philosophical thought.