Learn Kabbalah online · the Tree of Life from the Ten Sephirot to the Twenty-Two Paths

Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition concerned with the nature of the divine, creation, the soul, and humanity's relationship with the infinite · its teachings developed over centuries within Jewish religious and scholarly life. The courses at Global Spiritual Studies focus on the Tree of Life as it is understood through the later Western Hermetic Qabalah and depth psychology, exploring the Sephirot and Paths as patterns you can recognise in the psyche, the body, relationships and everyday experience. Our free complete guide to the Tree of Life covers the whole system in depth.

The Tree of Life is Kabbalah's core diagram · ten Sephirot arranged in three pillars and joined by twenty-two Paths, read from Malkuth (the physical world) at the bottom to Kether (the crown) at the top. It works as a map of the cosmos and of your own psyche at once. See it laid out in our free Tree of Life chart.

The ten Sephirot are the spheres on the Tree of Life · Kether, Chokmah, Binah, Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malkuth · each an emanation of the divine and a mirror of a part of the body, the psyche and daily life. Living the Tree of Life · Part 1: The Ten Sephirot walks all ten across eight classes, and the free complete guide introduces each one.

The twenty-two Paths are the lines that join the Sephirot. In the Western Hermetic Qabalah taught in these courses, each Path is associated with a Hebrew letter, a Major Arcana Tarot card and an astrological correspondence, and reads as a lived stage of inner growth between two spheres. Our 22 Paths correspondence guide lists every Path with its letter and card, and Part 2: The Twenty-Two Paths studies them in depth.

In the Western Hermetic Qabalah, the twenty-two Major Arcana are associated with the twenty-two Paths of the Tree, and the four suits and court cards map onto the Sephirot and the Four Worlds · which is why the Rider-Waite-Smith and Thoth decks were designed by Qabalists. This Tarot correspondence is part of a later Western esoteric synthesis rather than a teaching of traditional Jewish Kabbalah. Tarot on the Tree of Life shows the whole map in a single class, and our Kabbalah and Tarot article explains the connection.

No · these courses are open to students of every faith and background. They do not present themselves as traditional Jewish religious instruction: Evelynne teaches a Western Hermetic and psychological approach to the Tree of Life, drawing on Hebrew sources while exploring their relationship with Tarot and depth psychology. Kabbalah arose within Jewish mystical tradition, where views about who should study its deeper teachings have varied across communities and historical periods. Students seeking traditional Jewish Kabbalah are encouraged to study with a qualified teacher within that lineage.

No prior Tarot background is needed · the foundational Ten Sephirot course teaches the Tree through the body, the psyche and daily life, and introduces every card it uses along the way. If you do read Tarot, you will find the two traditions illuminate each other, since each Path carries a Major Arcana card.

They are three spellings of the same Hebrew word for "receiving," used to signal three streams of the tradition: Kabbalah for the Jewish mystical lineage, Qabalah for the Western Hermetic and occult tradition (Golden Dawn, Tarot), and Cabala for the Christian adaptation. Our courses work within the Hermetic and psychological stream, so you will see "Kabbalah" and "Qabalah" used for the same Tree of Life.

Most students grasp the ten Sephirot over the eight-class foundation and grow into the twenty-two Paths across a season of study · the courses are self-paced with lifetime access, so the timeline is yours. As the teaching itself says of the inner work, "it takes as long as it takes."

Yes · the free Tree of Life chart lays out the ten Sephirot with their meanings and correspondences, and the Tree of Life PDF study guide gives you the Path Notes to download and keep. Both are free and make a good companion to the courses.

Yes · the classes are taught in English with English subtitles, plus professionally translated subtitles in ten more languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Students from 45 countries have studied with Global Spiritual Studies, and we continue to add languages · see learning from anywhere for the full list.

Yes · Living the Tree of Life · Part 1: The Ten Sephirot runs as a live September 2026 cohort, with eight classes released one per week from September, two live Q&A sessions with Evelynne Joffe, a cohort discussion forum and a certificate of completion. Both Q&As are recorded and added to the course, so you keep them for good with lifetime access.

Living the Tree of Life · Part 1: The Ten Sephirot with Evelynne Joffe is the place to begin · eight classes that build the whole Tree from the ground up, with no prior Kabbalah or Tarot background needed. It is offered as a live September 2026 cohort and awards a certificate of completion.

The Complete Tree of Life is the fullest curriculum on the site · twenty-nine classes and more than eighteen hours with Evelynne Joffe, weaving the Ten Sephirot, the Twenty-Two Paths and Tarot on the Tree into one journey through every Sephirah, every Path and every Tarot card that lives on the Tree. Each of its three courses awards its own certificate of completion.

Yes · Living the Tree of Life · Part 2: The Twenty-Two Paths is the deep study of the Paths · twenty classes with Evelynne Joffe, giving each Path its Hebrew letter, its Major Arcana card and its lived meaning, including the three Dark Nights of the Soul and the pivotal Hanged Man Path. It awards a certificate of completion.

Yes · Tarot on the Tree of Life is the bridge class · a single session with Evelynne Joffe that places all twenty-two Major Arcana onto the Paths and reads the cards as the soul's ascent from Malkuth to Kether. It is the natural first step for Tarot readers meeting the Tree, and awards a certificate of completion.

The Hanged Man · Suicide or Death? with Evelynne Joffe reads this single Major Arcana card through the Kabbalistic Path of Mem · the difference between true surrender and stuckness, and the five-step path of death and rebirth traced through Christ, Odin and Inanna.

The Devil · Scapegoat or Light-bringer? with Evelynne Joffe reads the Devil through the Path of Ayin · Lucifer as the light-bringer, the scapegoat myth of shadow and blame, and the way the Devil mirrors the Lovers as bondage mirrors freedom.

Yes · The Threefold Path: Kabbalah, DruidCraft and Tarot with Linda Marson weaves the three traditions together · one class where the Tree of Life meets the Celtic World Tree and the Tarot, drawing on the DruidCraft tradition of Philip Carr-Gomm.

Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Formation, is a short and foundational work of Jewish mysticism · the text in which the ten Sephirot and the twenty-two Hebrew letters are first named together as the thirty-two paths of wisdom, the scheme the Tree of Life later grew from. Our complete guide to Sefer Yetzirah walks through the text, its recensions and its contested dating. You can also read it in full for nothing · our free PDF edition gives you Isidor Kalisch's 1877 translation, newly set, with a table of all twenty-two Hebrew letters and their attributions.