Right arm — Chesed

Arm of mercy (anatomical right per landmark convention)

The right arm of Adam Kadmon, identified with the sefirah of Chesed (חסד, 'lovingkindness'). In the Tree-of-Life sefirot diagram and in the Idrot's body-imagery alike, Chesed is the right-side outflowing principle: open-handed gift, expansive welcome, pure mercy. The right arm is the arm with which the Patriarch Abraham (the human exemplar of Chesed in Kabbalistic tradition) gathers the strangers to the tent. Following this project's coordinate convention, anatomical-right is at x<0.5 on the front-view silhouette; we render the rendered point at the right-shoulder / clavicle landmark (x=0.355, y=0.215), the canonical bilateral upper-limb attachment point. Note that the convention is anatomical, not viewer-relative — viewers looking at the silhouette from outside see Adam Kadmon's right arm on their own left.

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Point 3 of 5 in Adam Kadmon — Cosmic-Body Mapping (Lurianic)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Zohar — Idra Rabba Naso 142a (primary_canonical)

“His right arm is the arm of mercy, and his left arm is the arm of severity; they are joined together in his heart, the seat of beauty.”

Chayyim Vital, Etz Chaim, Sha'ar HaSefirot (primary_canonical)

Sha'ar HaSefirot presents Chesed as the right-side, expansive sefirah in the ordered array of the ten sefirot, which is the textual basis for the right-arm correspondence. Gate sub-section numbering varies among printings of Etz Chaim.

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