The Tree of Life: The Palace of Zeir Anpin: Volume Four: Part One

I’ve been reading this book since I bought it and I am getting answers to questions I had for a long time. It is a great source of information we don’t get anywhere else.

I am happy to see there is continuïty in this translation of the Tree of Life (Etz Chaim). This translation is excellent, just like the previous releases.A must have for anyone proficient in the Kabbalah. I would not recommend the Tree of Life for initiates

You have to get Volume 1 and work your way very slowly through each volume.. The translators know what they are doing. One thing that I do is write the names of the worlds in transliteration in the margin. My only complaint is that when the translator writes "emanation" instead of Atzilut, I think I lose the connection to that world. That's why I take these books very slow. I would suggest that a person have a working familiarity with the seven kings of Edom that died in Genesis 36:21 and the comparison in 1 Chronicles 1:43. These will set the sideboards and it is a very deep dive. I follow along in the Hebrew to see how honest the translators are. So far, so good.

I am also currently in the process of translating these English versions of the Tree of Life into German and making these translations available to the two authors and translators Collé for further use.