Of the Biblical figures in Judaism, Joseph is customarily called the Tzadik. Where the Patriarchs lived supernally as shepherds, the quality of righteousness contrasts most in Joseph's holiness amidst foreign worldliness. In Kabbalah, Joseph embodies the sefirah of Yesod, the lower descending connection of spirituality to materiality, the social role of the tzadik in Hasidic Judaism.