If Chesed is lovingkindness, Gevurah should be lovingseverity.

It is easy to see that Gevurah stripped of kindness is loveless judgment.

It is harder is to see that Chesed stripped of severity is equally loveless niceness.

Only together with Gevurah is Chesed love.

In Tiferet, this couple (and all couples) unite and inter-perfect in the beauty of balance.

I decided to revise Chesed in my revised prints. In my first editions “Chesed” was always translated as “love”.

Yesterday I revised it to “lovingkindness”.

Today I am leaning toward “kindness”.

I added a note to yesterday’s post detailing my print revisions:

I was considering “lovingkindness” for Chesed. There are good arguments for it. Viewed from approximate absoluteness, as emanated from Binah, Chesed is, in fact, complete lovingkindness, from which Gevurah develops its complementary severity. But viewed from below, which is the perspective of this sheet, Gevurah can be excluded from Chesed, which is then mere kindness — the loveless niceness of unconditional mercy and tolerance — always toward some at the expense of others.