The huma'n covenant is the idea that all collective power – social, political and economic – must be consecrated to the cultivation of *ada'm* (אד'ם, huma'n): divine-human image. The words אד'ם and huma'n are written with a special mark ( ' ) in the middle following a convention in the printing of Kabbalistic texts. Words that function not only in their regular meaning but also as Kabbalistic symbols are identified by adding a mark between the letters. *Ada'm* - אד'ם - huma"n is here identified as a symbol because for the Zohar (where the *mitnabot*'s Torah on this point is best expressed), this word is as symbol of the living harmony and unity of the divine powers. When the divine powers are balanced and unified, they form a constellation of powers called *ada'm*, sometimes pictured in the shape of a human body and sometimes as the sefirotic Tree. This constellation of divine powers involves the maximum presence and flow of qualities such as **desire** (רצון, *ratson*), **consciousness** (חוכמה, *hִokhma* and בינה, *binah*), **love** (חסד, *hִesed*), **justice** (דין, *din*), **beauty** (תפארת, *tif'eret*), and **relationality** (יסוד-מלכות, *yesod-malkhut*). In this way of thinking, the purpose of human existence is to be huma'n existence. We might think of *ada'm* as the fullest possible realization of the potential for beauty and goodness in human beings; a symbolic representation of what we most value in ourselves; a depiction of the highest version of humanity that we can imagine. In envisioning this, we blur the distinction between humanity and the divine (at its most immanent side). This is why *ada'm* is the **divine-human** image: Humanity in the image of God and God as a sort of Platonic Idea of the species – the highest form of humanity. *Brit ada'm* – The Huma'n Covenant – is the shared human commitment to wield our collective power to protect and cultivate humanity.