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GLOSSARY HEBREW AND TECHNICAL TERMS IN VOL. III AMIDAH. The principal part of all the three daily prayers, to be recited quietly and in a standing posture. ANCIENT OF DAYS. The highest of the Grades of the Godhead. APPLE FIELD. A name for the Garden of Eden. CENTRAL PILLAR. A name for the Sefirah Tifereth, which unites the Right and the Left. COMMUNITY OF ISRAEL. The Shekinah in its connection with the people of Israel. FOUNDATION (Yesod). The ninth Sefirah, also called Zaddik. GEDULAH (lit. greatness). Another name for the Sefirah Hesed. HOLY ONE. A name commonly applied to God in the aspect of Tifereth (q.v.). KLIFOTH (lit. 'shells' or 'husks'). The powers of evil. LESSER COUNTENANCE. The Sefirah Tifereth (Kether being the 'long countenance'). MALKUTH (lit. sovereignty). The tenth Sefirah: esp., the Shekinah in connection with Tifereth (q.v.). METATRON. The head of the 'world of creation', called also the 'servant' or the 'body' of the Shekinah. RIGHTEOUS (Zaddik). The ninth Sefirah, also called 'Foundation'. SHEMA (lit. hear). The fourth verse of Deut. VI, containing the proclamation of God's unity, with or without the succeeding verses. TIFERETH (lit. beauty). The sixth Sefirah, often symbolized by the sun, also by the Tree of Life with twelve roots and seventy branches. YESOD (v. Foundation). ZADDIK (v. Righteous).
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