Tiferet — heart of prayer

Compassionate integration

Tiferet is the middle, harmonising focus used here to represent prayer gathered through compassion and integration. The heart-region placement honours a widespread Kabbalistic symbolic body idiom while remaining an interface convention rather than a claim about cardiac physiology.

Keter — crown of intentionChokhmah — flash of insightBinah — shaping understandingTiferet — heart of prayerTiferet — heart of prayerYesod — generative axisAnatomical-right hand — lifting gestureAnatomical-left hand — lifting gesture

Point 4 of 7 in Kabbalistic Prayer Body (Kavvanot)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Hayyim Vital, Sha'ar ha-Kavvanot (Gate of Intentions), derushei the Amidah (primary_canonical)

The Amidah derushim place prayer within a dynamic sefirotic process in which the middle configuration is a principal integrative focus; the heart coordinate is editorial.

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