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	The Ten Sefirot: Gevurah
		Gevurah appears in the configuration of the sefirot along the left axis, directly beneath binah, and corresponds in the tzelem Elokim to the "left arm."
		Through the "dual effort" of chesed and gevurah, not only to form reality, but to rectify reality (through the means of "the left arm repels while the right draws near"), these fallen sparks are redeemed and elevated to return and unite with their ultimate source.
		The spiritual state identified in Chassidut as corresponding to the sefirah of gevurah is that of yirah (fear).
	www.inner.org /sefirot/sefgevur.htm (628 words)

	Sefirot
		The sefirah of gevurah is thus the manifestation of Gods power to restrict and conceal the Light which He emanates, in order that His creatures will be able to receive His loving-kindness according to their capacity.
		Gevurah corresponds to the second day of creation when the higher waters were separated from the lower waters.
		Whereas chesed and gevurah signify unbounded loving-kindness, and the limitation and concealment thereof, respectively, so that finite creatures can receive according to their ability; netzach and hod are the two sefirot which define the ability of the recipient to receive.
	kabbalah_1.tripod.com /kabbalah/id4.html (2640 words)

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		Gevurah corresponds to the conservative aspects of leadership, to the power to preserve the status-quo, and the power to destroy anything opposed to it.
		Gevurah is a hard sephirah to work with, as Kabbalistic magicians often discover to their cost.
		Chesed and Gevurah are the sceptre and sword of a king; there are many statues of medieval kings in British cathedrals which show a king seated with the sceptre of legitimate authority in one hand and the sword of temporal might in the other.
	www.digital-brilliance.com.cob-web.org:8888 /kab/nok/q8.txt (3691 words)

	Elul - Ezer C'negdo and Spiritual Longing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gevurah creates an environment, which has to do with the dark space and the fruitful womb.
		In Judaism, Gevurah is creating an appropriate arena - appropriate boundaries - to match the thirsty with the thirsty, and this really is 'nice' - because then there is reciprocal thirst.
		The Gevurah womb-walls are trying to build an environment of objective reciprocity and obligation that has the potential to improve the moral quality of human relationships.
	kohelet.org /go/web/to/kohelet/rhoffman/elul.htm (2404 words)

	Learn Kabbalah \| Hesed, Gevurah, and Tiferet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second triad in the tree of the sefirot is that of hesed, gevurah, and tiferet, or lovingkindness, judgment, and harmony.
		The patriarch Abraham is associated with hesed, and look what he does: he leaves his homeland, he goes out of his way to establish relationships with others, and in his life-defining moment, the binding of his son Isaac, he is the active principle, ready to send forth his hand against his son.
		Within the dyad of hesed and gevurah, and their resolution in tiferet, we see not only an unusual mapping of gender, but a transcendence of the dyadic notion itself.
	www.learnkabbalah.com /hesed_gevurah_and_tiferet (1375 words)

	(via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gevurah is entering into the bigger world, and dealing with sometimes harsh consequences.
		Gevurah is the female force, that contains and channels the energy of Chesed, the male force, an energy emission.
		The divine attribute of Gevurah condenses the Chesed flow of light and life force, concealing it within materiality, so that creatures can live and matter exist screened from the intensity of the very forces providing the source of their existence.
	borndigital.com.cob-web.org:8888 /tree/esa/gevurah.htm (517 words)

	Poetry and Magic(2): Howls & Whispers (3).
		The Averse energies of Gevurah are those born of an excess of Gevurah’s Strength and Courage combined with a false interpretation of its Spiritual Vision, which is The Vision of Power.
		But the spiritual energies of Goddess govern the poem with the vibrations of her number, 3: there are three stanzas and twelve lines to the poem; and 12, the governing number of the poem, reduces in Numerology to three.
		At Gevurah our vision of the archetype hero (male or female) inspires and spurs us on, and at Chesed the vision of enthroned Majesty, which embodies perfect love and stability, fills our imagination and becomes our Yetziritic image of ourselves, guides our goals, and is the model of behaviour that we seek to emulate.
	www.zeta.org.au /~annskea/Howls3.htm (2852 words)

	Gevurah - Attributes
		Gevurah is the "Left Hand of God." Gevurah, or "Severity - Justice," is the next sphere up from Tipharet; it is where the balance learned in Tipharet is needed to deal with the tests ahead.
		Gevurah is the source of Divine judgment and law.
		Gevurah, or 'might,' is the energy of constriction or withdrawal, also called Tzimtzum, which contains or circumscribes the rush of life force, Chesed, the boundless outpouring of divine desire to give.
	dewarlorx.com /gevurah.htm (2263 words)

	The Rabbinic Epithet Gevurah
		In no case does the epithet gevurah approach the philosophical meaning of "omnipotence." The medieval Hebrew translators of Jewish philosophical works composed in Arabic were sensitive to this fact when they coined a new term: hak-kol yakhol, a pale, abstract, and philosophically unambiguous attribute lacking the colorful armory of the epithet gevurah.
		The epithet gevurah is notably absent from the Mishnah and rare in Tosefta and in most tannitic midrashim with the exception of Mekhilta de RI (but see note above on the disputed provenance of this midrash compilation).
		Gevurah as a Characteristic of Divinity in the Context of Benedictions and in
	www.bu.edu /mzank/Michael_Zank/gevurah.html (4864 words)

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		Likewise the relationship between Gevurah and Mars, and between Netzach and Venus - this is an example of the finger pointing at the moon: look at the finger and you don't see the moon.
		Kether: Unity Chokhmah: Unconditioned Creativity Binah: Possibility of Boundaries Chesed: Conditioned Creativity Gevurah: Response to Boundaries Tipheret: Self-Consciousness Netzach: Response to Creativity Hod: Appreciation of Boundaries Yesod: Ego Malkuth Diversity This is an abstract approach which concentrates on the polarity of force/creativity and form.
		Mars (as the warrior defending the law and the State) corresponds to Gevurah (but not Mars as the bloodthirsty berserker - this is an aspect of Chesed).
	www.uark.edu /studorg/stpa/kab5.html (1944 words)

	Kolel's Zohar Course
		In a common theme of the Zohar, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob embodied the Sefirot of Chesed, Gevurah and Tif'eret.
		Gevurah is harshness, strictness, saying no. When this energy goes a little too far it becomes a no to life, utter destructiveness, evil.
		The identification of Isaac with Gevurah may seem surprising because Isaac is noteworthy for his receptive, passive role in the Biblical stories.
	www.kolel.org /zohar/mod3.1.html (2633 words)

	SparkNotes: The Kabbalah: The Ten Sefirot
		Gevurah means “strength” or “judgment” and is located on the left (feminine) side of the Tree of Life.
		Gevurah represents God’s left shoulder and is often associated with Isaac, Abraham’s son and Jacob’s father.
		Tiferet lies in the center of the Tree and is associated with the center of God’s chest, or torso.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/kabbalah/section6.rhtml (2287 words)

	Psychic Mapping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The active sefirot are chesed, gevurah and tiferet.
		Gevurah is "no free lunches." Chesed and Gevurah work together, though in opposite directions, like one hand sawing the board and the other holding it steady.
		Severity and judgement, Gevurah, without any tempering by kindness and mercy, is seen as a source of cruelty.
	www.borndigital.com /tree/esa/view.htm (2814 words)

	Kabbala #11 - Gevurah: The Strength of Judgment
		The fifth of the Ten Sefirot -- gevurah -- is the second sefira of action and one which brings strict justice into the world.
		The word gevurah literally means "power" and "strength." It is at first glance taken to allude to the fury of God punishing the wicked etc., which to us appears as an act of mighty conquest.
		Gevurah is primarily an act of constraint and restraint.
	www.aish.com /spirituality/kabbala101/Kabbala_11_-_Gevurah_The_Strength_of_Judgment.asp (1602 words)

	Skills
		Gevurah refers to might, strength and power, especially in the sense of control.
		Gevurah manifests as justice, judgment or on a personal level as self-control.
		Gevurah are optimally balanced the result is the affirming and healing energy of
	www.spiritualintelligence.com /skills.htm (851 words)

	Hebrew Spirit Rising - Issue 04
		When embodying the shadow or unevolved aspect of Gevurah, one is quick to abandon ethical principles and decency in the name of victory, at any cost.
		In its unconscious expressions, Gevurah is expressed as raw aggression, manipulation, misuse of creative energies and abuse of power.
		He had to go against his nature of Loving-kindness and embrace Gevurah The positive aspect of Gevurah includes the power to defend one's self, to make wrongs right, to display toughness of will and spirit in order to liberate, protect and defend self, family or tribe.
	www.kabbalahcoach.com /HebrewSpiritRisingIssue04.htm (2441 words)

	Chesed (Kabbalah) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is given the association of kindness and love, and is the first of the emotive attributes of the Sephirot.
		It is balanced by Gevurah, Restraint, which is God's other aspect as a punisher, who takes away that which is not needed.
		One attempt is in trying to reconcile both Chesed and Gevurah with the Vishuddha chakra, concerned with creative expression, for which both these forces are necessary, and the ethical rules of yama and niyama, the do's and do-nots of yoga.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chesed (423 words)

	Tanya - Daily Torah Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gevurah and Chesed are thus joined in a state of mutual incorporation.
		In this brief note, the Rebbe explains why the Alter Rebbe stresses here that specifically âthis [manner of] Gevurah and tzimtzum is also a quality of Chesed.â His intention is to exclude thereby the Gevurah and tzimtzum discussed earlier, in the sixth chapter of the first part of Tanya.
		Another analogy: Smoked glass is used to protect oneâs eyes from the sunâs rays by blocking the free passage of light that a lighter-colored glass would admit; at the same time, this same protective glass does permit some degree of light to enter, so that benefit may be derived from the sunâs rays.
	www.chabad.org /dailystudy/tanya.asp?tDate=6/12/2006 (1495 words)

	KBY.org: Torat Yavneh
		Gevurah, as well, on a superficial level, is an outward demonstration of strength and power.
		These two motions are expressed in the phrase, "His koach (strength) and gevurah (might)." Contrary to convention, koach and gevurah are not similar concepts that demonstrate power, but rather opposing traits that form a balance.
		The gevurah of the sun -- the koach of self-restraint and conquest are expressed not only in nature but also in ethics: "Those who are insulted and do not insult, hear their disgrace and do not answer...
	www.kby.org /torah/article.cfm?articleid=1729 (641 words)

	Gevurah Strength Might Ashrei Happy Blessed Middah Middot Mitzvah Mitzvot Jewish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gevurah is the source of accomplishment, creativity, and self-preservation.
		Gevurah is a Middah that does not stand alone in Jewish thought.
		“Gevurah is associated in the soul with the power to restrain one's innate urge to bestow goodness upon others, when the recipient of that good is judged to be unworthy and liable to misuse it Chesed and gevurah act together to create an inner balance in the soul's approach to the outside world.
	www.ashrei.com /gevurah.htm (1002 words)

	The Dark Side of Nature
		The cruel face of Gevurah is epitomized in the figure of Isaac's son Esau.
		Isaac's holy mission is to teach how to rectify the harsh aspect of Gevurah -- selfish excess, as embodied in Esau -- by directing one's very power and strength back in upon oneself in the form of self-discipline, restraint and the focused application of power and strength for the sake of accomplishing true good.
		Gevurah has to be "tied up" and bound in the service of Chessed, as symbolized in the binding of Isaac on the altar by Abraham (see The Binding of Isaac).
	www.azamra.org /Earth/field-06.html (4006 words)

	Kabbala #12 - Chesed and Gevurah: The Two Sided Approach
		For example, the foundation block of creation was chesed, whereas its continuation was gevurah, as we have described in the last installment of this series.
		Thus when a certain event occurs, we may analyze the chesed components and the gevurah components that are simultaneously a part of the event.
		We see from this that chesed and gevurah are acting simultaneously towards the same goal -- by exerting forces in opposite directions.
	www.aish.com /spirituality/kabbala101/Kabbala_12_-_Chesed_and_Gevurah_The_Two_Sided_Approach.asp (1429 words)

	The Kabbalistic Sefirot 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gevurah or might is the left arm of the emotional division of the 10 sefirot.
		With chesed, we draw others near with our lovingkindness and with gevurah we exercise judgement and are able to turn away those who are undeserving.
		The Kabbalah teaches that only by the power of gevurah can chesed work in the world.
	home.comcast.net /~chakra_system/5sef.html (135 words)

	Kabbalah 101
		Chesed, Gevurah and Tiferet are purely emotive; Netzach, Hod, and Yesod are pragmatic.
		By contrast, "Gevurah," meaning "Strength," corresponds to the emotion of Yirah, Fear of G-d.
		Gevurah is thus known as Midat HaDin ("judgement").
	www.jewish-holiday.com /kabalattributes.html (629 words)

	Ecstasy, Frenzy, Domination, and Sexual Abuse in Spirit's Name \| The Shalom Center
		Yet there is danger in a teacher overmastered by Gevurah run amok: one who teaches through raging fear and anger or through lies and psychological manipulation.
		Chesed needs to be balanced by Gevurah's Rigorous Boundary-making, and the two must reach not just toward balance but toward the synthesis of Tiferet or Rachamim, the sphirah of focused compassion -- traditionally connected with the heart-space.
		When a teacher channels either Chesed or Gevurah into the notion that the teacher OWNS this power -- is not, one might say, one of God's "temporary tenants" of this loving or awesome property but is its Owner -- then this invites among the students first submissiveness; and then it invites, creates, and enforces idolatry.
	www.shalomctr.org /node/1118 (2360 words)

	Your Guide to Personal Freedom - Week 2 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If love (Chesed) is the bedrock of human expression, discipline (Gevurah) is the channel through which we express love.
		Gevurah - discipline and measure - concentrates and directs our efforts, our love in the proper directions.
		Chesed of gevurah is the love in discipline; it is the recognition that your personal discipline and the discipline you expect of others is only an expression of love.
	www.meaningfullife.com.cob-web.org:8888 /torah/holidays/8b/Your_Guide_to_Personal_Freedom_-_Week_2.php (954 words)

	Lev Counts the Omer
		Gevurah I pictured as a Blue Castle, because Chesed is Strength, and I had just finished re-reading the Narnia books, so castles were on my mind.
		Within the Strength of Gevurah is a place of balance and peace and even rest.
		The orb is the microcosm, the model of the world through which Gevurah comprehends the nature of existence so that Strength can be applied at just the right point to effect whatever change is willed.
	www.commonhouse.net /levopolis/omer.html (2498 words)

	Gevurah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		'''Gevurah''' Also known as Geburah, and Din is the fifth Sefirot of the Tree of life (Kabbalah).
		It commonly has Four paths leading to Binah, Chesed, Tifereth, and Hod.
		Gevurah is known as Strength, Judgement, and Power.
	gevurah.iqnaut.net (153 words)

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		Harmony in love is one that blends both the chesed and gevurah aspects of love.
		Gevurah -- discipline and measure -- concentrates and directs our efforts, our love in the proper directions.
		It is the understanding that we have no right to judge others; we have a right only to love them and that includes wanting them to be their best.
	triumphpro.com /omer____daily_meditation.htm (5728 words)

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