Malkhut

Kingdom — feet / Shekhinah

Malkhut — kingdom, the receptive vessel, the in-dwelling Shekhinah, the world. Identified with the feet of Adam Kadmon and with King David in the patriarchal scheme. Malkhut has nothing of its own; it is pure receptivity, a moon to Tiferet's sun. Yet it is also the only sefirah we directly inhabit — every act of tikkun (repair) the kabbalist undertakes is done in and through Malkhut. The Lurianic project of tikkun olam is, structurally, the work of returning the broken sparks to their sefirot — and the place that work happens is here, at the feet, in the kingdom.