Tiferet

Beauty — heart center

Tiferet — the harmonising centre of the Tree, the synthesis of Chesed and Gevurah. Identified with Jacob, with the sun, and with the heart of Adam Kadmon. In the partzuf scheme it is Ze'ir Anpin (the Short Face), the king who mediates between the upper triad and the lower sefirot. Devotionally Tiferet is the sefirah of the prayer 'Shema Yisrael' as an act of unification — bringing the upper and lower into a single beating centre.