The sefira of Gevura is the fifth of the ten sefirot. When the sefirot are divided into the five primary sefirot – Keter, Ḥokhma, Bina, Tiferet, and Malkhut – Gevura is encompassed in the sefira of Tiferet as the Ḥokhma level of Tiferet (see Tiferet) The sefira of Gevura is called by this name since it characterizes restraint and constriction. It represents the left column in a process called the rectification of lines, and it is this left column on which the constriction (tzimtzum) acts. This placement characterizes the power of restraint that is used to repel the supernal light. In the structure of partzufim, which is analogous to the human body, Gevura is generally presented as the left hand of the partzuf.
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