Shaddai El Khay (שדי אל חי) — "Almighty Living God." The Name is a fusion of two distinct divine epithets: Shaddai (Shaddai), usually translated "Almighty" and linked etymologically to the notion of a mountain or to the breast (שַׁד, shad), and El Khay (El Chai), "the Living God" — God as the perpetual, unceasing source of life. Together they signify a deity whose absolute power is inseparable from the constant, self‑renewing vitality that sustains all existence. The phrase appears in the Hebrew Bible only once (Joshua 3:10), in a declaration that by driving out the nations the people will know that “the living God is among you,” yet its components are richly attested: El Chai recurs in Psalms and Jeremiah, while Shaddai is the principal divine name in the Book of Job.

Position on the Tree of Life

This Name is assigned to Sephirah 9 (Yesod) in the World of Action (Assiah). Yesod is the foundation, the lunar storehouse of images, and the vehicle through which the energies of the upper Sephiroth are transmitted to Malkuth. Here the God‑Name of Yesod in Atziluth is Shaddai El Khay (Shaddai El Chai); in Assiah the same Name is repeated, emphasizing that the vitalizing, grounding power of the “Living Almighty” operates at the most concrete level of manifestation.

Astrological and Planetary Correspondence

The Yesod position aligns this Name with the sphere of the Moon—receptivity, cyclic change, the subconscious, and the generative fluids of life. The Moon’s reflective and fertile nature mirrors the function of El Chai: a sustaining, ever‑renewing dynamism that supports growth within a fixed framework. Shaddai El Chai thus governs the point where pure potential receives form, linking the astrological influence of Luna to the fundamental vitality that ensures continuity.

Historical Context

The epithet Shaddai alone is the patriarchal name par excellence, appearing over thirty times in the Pentateuch, often in covenantal contexts (e.g., Genesis 17:1, where God appears to Abram as El Shaddai). By the Second Temple period the Name had taken on a specific theosophical resonance in Jewish mystical circles. In the Sefer Yetzirah, the combination of the letters of Shaddai is used in meditative practices tied to the foundation of the universe. In classical Kabbalah, the Zohar expounds Shaddai as “He who said to His world, ‘Enough’” (She’amar le‑olamo dai), a power of restraint and limit, while El Chai points to the endless life‑current that cannot be exhausted. The conjunction of the two in this single God‑Name thus resolves a paradox: the bounded, creative force that sets all limits (Shaddai) is simultaneously the unbounded, living flow (El Chai).

In the context of the 666 tables of Liber 777, Shaddai El Khay appears in the final column of the God‑Names of Assiah, at the step of Yesod. It is the last of the purely Sephirotic divine names in that column, and its counterpart in the column of the God‑Names of Atziluth is identical—underscoring the continuity of the “Living Almighty” principle through all planes.