Hod (Splendor) — הוד

Hod is the eighth Sefirah, the lower expression of Gevurah on the Pillar of Severity. It governs the domain of formal articulation — prayer, prophecy, and intellectual submission before the divine. The Zohar associates Hod with the prophet Aharon and with the capacity for Hodaah — acknowledgment and gratitude. In the Kabbalistic framework, Hod refracts Netzach's raw devotional fire into structured ritual expression; it is the Sefirah of liturgical form, of the precise words that carry kavvanah (intention) from the human realm upward through the Tree.

Cross-Tradition Resonances