The Ilanot

A recent scholarly cataloguing project studied roughly two hundred of these diagrams and found they genuinely disagree with one another. There was never one single 'Tree of Life' diagram — the now-standard version everyone draws actually descends from later Christian printers, not from one original Jewish source.

J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (2022), cataloguing the Ilanot Project's holdings

Hand-drawn parchment scroll diagrams of the Kabbalistic divine structure, made across five centuries and preserved in the hundreds.

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