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.

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Point 6 of 10 in Kabbalah — Tree of Life (Adam Kadmon)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Zohar III.260a (primary_canonical)

Zohar III.260a (Vilna folio pagination) treats Tiferet as the central harmonising attribute joining the opposed currents of Chesed and Gevurah. This supports the diagram's heart/centre symbolism without making an anatomical claim.

Cordovero, Pardes Rimonim, Gate 8 (Tiferet) (primary_canonical)

Pardes Rimonim, Gate 8, is Cordovero's focused treatment of Tiferet and its place as the mediating centre among the sefirot. It supports the Tiferet synthesis described here, while the heart placement remains a diagrammatic analogy.

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