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Tree of life (Kabbalah)

Diagram used in various mystical traditions Part of a series onKabbalah Concepts Ein Sof Tzimtzum Ohr Ayin and Yesh Sefirot Four Worlds Seder hishtalshelut Tree of Life The path of the flaming sword Merkavah Jewish angelic hierarchy Shekhinah Partzufim Qlippoth Tohu and Tikun Sparks of holiness Messianic rectification Gilgul Kabbalistic astrology Gematria Notarikon Temurah Names of God in Judaism Shemhamphorasch Tzadik Tzadikim Nistarim Anthropomorphism in Kabbalah Panentheism History Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism Tannaim Heichalot Sefer Yetzirah Chassidei Ashkenaz Medieval Bahir Toledano tradition Prophetic Kabbalah Zohar Kabbalistic commentarieson the Bible Mainstream displacement ofrationalism with Kabbalah Renaissance Selective influence onWestern thought Hermetic Qabalah Mysticism afterSpanish expulsion Mystics of16th-century Safed Cordoveran Kabbalah Lurianic Kabbalah Maharal's thought Popular KabbalisticMussar Early modern Baal Shem-Nistarim Sabbatean mystical heresies Emden–Eybeschutz controversy Immigration to the Land of Israel Traditional Oriental Kabbalists Beit El Synagogue Eastern European Judaism Hasidic Judaism / philosophy Lithuanian Jews Hasidic-Mitnagdic schism Modern Hasidic dynasties Mysticism inreligious Zionism Academic interest inJewish mysticism Non-Orthodox interest in Jewish mysticism English James Lees' Practices Torah study Mystical exegesis Mitzvot Minhag Customary immersion in mikveh Meditation Kavanot Teshuvah Deveikut Prayer Nusach Tikkun Chatzot Tikkun Leil Shavuot Pilgrimage to Tzadik Pilgrimage to holy grave Lag BaOmer at Meron Asceticism Rosicrucianism Practical Kabbalah People 100s Four Who Entered the Pardes Shimon bar Yochai Akiva ben Joseph 1100s Isaac the Blind Azriel Judah ben Kalonymus 1200s Nahmanides Abraham Abulafia Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla Moses de Leon Menahem Recanati Judah Ha-Hasid Eleazar of Worms Isaac ben Moses of Vienna Abraham ben Isaac of Granada 1300s Bahya ben Asher 1400s Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov Yohanan Alemanno Moses Botarel Joseph De La Reina 1500s Meir ibn Gabbai Joseph Karo Shlomo Alkabetz Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chełm Moshe Alshich Moses ben Jacob Cordovero Isaac Luria Chaim Vital Mordechai HaKohen of Safed Kalonymus Haberkasten Joseph Saragossi 1600s Judah Loew ben Bezalel Isaiah Horowitz Eliyahu Baal Shem Ben Yosef Yutzpa Abraham Azulai Shimon Lavi Joel Sirkis Elijah Loans Yoel Baal Shem Shabbatai HaKohen Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas 1700s Chaim ibn Attar Naphtali Cohen Joseph Ergas Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk Jonathan Eybeschutz Baal Shem Tov Dov Ber of Mezeritch Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Shalom Sharabi Vilna Gaon Chaim Joseph David Azulai Nathan Adler Schneur Zalman of Liadi Chaim Volozhin 1800s Nachman of Breslov Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov Ben Ish Chai Shlomo Eliyashiv Chaim Pinto Yedidyah Raphael Chai Abulafiya Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach 1900s Aharon Roth Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg Solomon Eliezer Alfandari Baba Sali Sholom Dovber Schneersohn Abraham Isaac Kook Salman Eliyahu Yaakov Chaim Sofer Levi Yitzchak Schneerson Yehuda Fatiyah Hillel Zeitlin Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Yehuda Ashlag Yitzhak Kaduri Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach Monsieur Chouchani Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag Mordechai Sharabi Aryeh Kaplan Menachem Mendel Schneerson 2000s Avraham Brandwein Menachem Froman Eliyahu Leon Levi Adin Steinsaltz Gamliel Rabinowitz Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Moshe Weinberger Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb Role History Torah Tanakh Prophecy Ruach HaKodesh Pardes exegesis Talmudical hermeneutics Midrash Jewish commentarieson the Bible Oral Torah Eras of Rabbinic Judaism Generational descent in Halacha Generational ascent in Kabbalah Rabbinic literature Talmudic theology Halakha Aggadah Hakira Classic Mussar literature Ashkenazi Judaism Sephardi Judaism Modern Jewish philosophies Jewish studies Topics God in Judaism Divine transcendence Divine immanence Free will Divine providence Kabbalistic reasonsfor the 613 Mitzvot Jewish principles of faith Jewish eschatology Primary texts vte A version of the Kabbalistic tree of life The Tree of Life (Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים, ʿēṣ ḥayyim) is a symbolic diagram used in Jewish mystical traditions, especially in Kabbalah, to describe divine structure, creation, and the spiritual path of ascent.

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