Kabbalah Foundations: Tiferet

Make holy clothes for your brother Aaron,

for dignity and adornment.

(1) Awake, awake, O Zion!

Clothe yourself in splendor;

Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy city!

For the uncircumcised and the impure

Shall never enter you again.

This Sefirah is also called Splendor-Tiferet-תפארת. You therefore must be informed to know the matter of splendor-Tiferet-תפארת. As you already know, the Name HaShem-יהו״ה, blessed is He, is the trunk of the tree, whereas the root and everything else are unified to it, including the branches, which adhere to it on all sides, and that it is HaShem-יהו"ה, blessed is He, who acts upon all and rules over all. When He judges His creatures, and acts with them in accordance to His straightforward judgment, we already have informed you that He then dons the appropriate garment for that action. If He dons the garment of kindness-Chessed, then the verdict has come out to bestow goodness upon His creatures, as we have already informed you in this Gate. He thus is called by each name and each title according to what is appropriate for the time, and all those garments and titles are therefore called Splendor-Tiferet-תפארת. You thus will see that it is written, “You shall make holy garments for your brother Aharon, for glory and splendor-Tiferet-תפארת,” and similarly, “He has dressed me in the raiment of salvation, He has cloaked me in a robe of righteousness, like a bridegroom who exalts [himself] in grandeur-Pe’er-פאר,” and it is written, “To bring about for the mourners of Zion, to give them grandeur-Pe’er-פאר instead of ashes-Eipher-אפר,” and it is written, “Bind your grandeur-Pe’ercha-פארך upon yourself,” referring to the Tefillin.