‘ינדא’ is a Holy Name formed by permuting the letters of the Tetragrammaton (יהוה). The letters Yod, Nun, Dalet, Aleph are not a direct anagram of the four-letter Name (which lacks Nun and Dalet and contains Heh), but they belong to the same family of divine names used in Kabbalistic temurah (permutation) to express the garbs or aspects of God in the four worlds. The name ינדא (YNDA) does not appear in the Tanakh or classical Hebrew liturgy; it is a product of the systematic recombinations found in later Jewish mystical texts, particularly in the literature of the Merkabah and the practical Kabbalah. In the context of the Table of 777, this name is assigned to Kether in Assiah – the crown in the World of Action – representing the most transcendent aspect of the divine dwelling in the most dense and material sphere of manifestation.

Position on the Tree of Life

‘ינדא’ is placed at Kether (the Crown) within Assiah, the fourth and lowest of the Kabbalistic worlds. Assiah is the world of matter, action, and the physical universe. The assignment of a divine name at this level indicates the highest unity or source of will operating at the very base of existence. The nine other permutations of the same root (from Chokmah to Malkuth, e.g., נידא, דינא, דניא, etc.) each represent the ordering and governance of this same divine energy as it descends and becomes more manifest through the sephiroth.

Historical context

The practice of generating divine names by permuting the consonants of God’s primary names is central to the Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Formation), where it is written that through 231 gates of permutation God created the universe. In that text, the permutations of the Tetragrammaton are the keys to the divine ordering of the cosmos. The specific name ‘ינדא’ appears in later works of the Practical Kabbalah, where such names are used as formulas for invocation, for the binding of angels, and for the achievement of specific spiritual effects together with their angelic and sephirothic correspondences. In these traditions, each permutation is understood to gate the influence of a particular sephirah in a specific world. ‘ינדא’ is thus not a Name of God as revealed in open scripture, but a secret Name wielded by the adept to contact the divine will at the very source of material existence.

In the table of 777, this name appears directly in the entry for ‘The Revolutions of ינדא in Assiah’ at the step of Kether, associating the Force of 1 with the letter Yod as the first letter of the permutation – the initiating impulse. It is written here that at the highest point of the lowest world, the divine name is the crown, the first silent stir before creation in matter.