Malkuth (Kingdom) — מלכות

Malkuth is the tenth and final Sefirah, the base of the Middle Pillar where divine emanation completes its descent into manifest reality. Known as the Shechinah — the indwelling divine presence — the Zohar identifies Malkuth with Knesset Yisrael (the Community of Israel) and with the feminine aspect of God in exile. Malkuth possesses no light of its own; it receives and reflects the shefa of all nine Sefirot above it, which is why Sefer Yetzirah calls it 'the end embedded in the beginning and the beginning embedded in the end.' It is simultaneously the lowest point on the Etz Chayyim and the gateway through which ascent begins.

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