Sephirah

Tiferet

The busiest node on the tree, with six lines, and the position that makes this arrangement what it is: Tiferet stands ABOVE Chesed and Gevurah here rather than below them, in the third row. It receives Beth down the middle pillar from Keter, a diagonal from each of the supernals, sends a diagonal down to each of Chesed and Gevurah, and passes the Double Resh on down the centre to Yesod.

2 correspondences · 0 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Divine name YHVH, first attested 1200 BCE.

Divine name

  • YHVH

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1200 BCE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    יהו"ה — the Fifth Gate of Sha'arei Orah. The name belongs to the SEFIRAH and not to any diagram: Gikatilla wrote around 1290, four centuries before this arrangement was printed, and was describing neither this tree nor any other.

    Evidence

    1. Moses for the Torah; the prophets and the men of the Great Assembly for the rest, Tanakh, c. 1200–165 BCE (composition); canon fixed by c. 100 CE — Psalms 39:13

      · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation

      Where the name stands in scripture: שִׁמְעָה־תְפִלָּתִי יְהֹוָה.

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    2. Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Sha'arei Orah, c. 1290 — Sha'arei Orah, Fifth Gate, Sixth Sefirah

      · Gates of Light

      The gate's opening formula names the sefirah and the name together.

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Body attribution

  • Torso

    Traditional
    Who says so
    Not yet attributed to a school
    Earliest verified attestation
    1280 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Not yet investigated

    תפארת גופא. Patach Eliyahu, a passage of Tikkunei Zohar printed in ordinary siddurim, gives the body's right and left: Chesed is the right arm and Gevurah the left. Both diagrams place Chesed on the right side of the page; the Golden Dawn reverses the bodily attribution without moving the sphere. The passage names seven body parts and says nothing of Keter, Chochmah or Binah.

    Evidence

    1. Shimon bar Yochai (traditional attribution), Tikkunei Zohar, Late 13th–early 14th century — Tikkunei Zohar 17a

      · Constantinople printing

      חסד דרועא ימינא. גבורה דרועא שמאלא. תפארת גופא. נצח והוד תרין שוקין. ויסוד סיומא דגופא אות ברית קדש. מלכות פה.

      The Aramaic, public domain. Rendered plainly: Chesed is the right arm, Gevurah the left arm, Tiferet the body, Netzach and Hod the two thighs, Yesod the end of the body and the sign of the holy covenant, Malchut the mouth. The English on Sefaria is CC-BY-NC and is not reproduced here.

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