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Shefa

Flow or abundance: the divine influx that descends through the sefirot to sustain the worlds.

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

Shefa is the overflow of blessing and life from the divine source, which descends through the sefirot and the worlds. Human action can open or obstruct the channels; the tzaddik in Hasidism is a channel of shefa for his followers.