Tree of Life
An Introduction to the Kabbalah

Sometimes: Tree of Life: An Introduction to the Cabala

by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi
(a.k.a. Warren Kenton)

Copyright © Warren Kenton 1972

First Published in 1972
Reissued as a Rider Pocket Edition 1983
Reprinted 1986

Printed in: Great Britain, Australia, South Africa and United States of America

The American Edition by SAMUEL WEISER, INC. York Beach, ME 03910 ISBN 0-87728-189-0 Reviewed by Harold M Gillespie December 2000

The author is the only one I know that has given examples of how he classifies things according to the Tree (of Life) and given examples of his own trees. If you go through the book, you'll find many illustrations to help you see the different relations and applications of the Tree system.

The idea is for us to use the Tree to classify things for ourselves. This presents a way of using the Kabbalah as a whole that doesn't sound so mysterious that it leaves others out. It's not a beginner's book, but it's not so advanced that a beginner can't use it. It's not so simple that the advanced won't find it interesting.

Important Feature

Teaches using the Tree as a whole rather than isolated qualities on the Tree (contrast this with The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune). Taking the Tree down from it's "high" position to classify everyday things like money. If we are to change our lives, we can move everything in our lives onto the tree.

Other books by the Author

Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

• Adam and the Kabbalistic Tree
• The Way of Kabbalah
• A Kabbalistic Universe

As Warren Kenton

• The Anatomy of Fate