A working guide to number, letter & form

Sefirot Numerology of the Tree of Life

Ten numbers. Twenty-two letters. One diagram that has been used for eight hundred years to describe how something becomes something else. This book teaches you to read it — and to read yourself on it.

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Pages
384
Sefirot
10
Paths
22
Tables
41

Numerology, given a
structure to live in.

Most numerology hands you a number and leaves you there. The Tree of Life does something better: it tells you where that number sits — what feeds it, what restrains it, and what it becomes when it finally reaches the ground.

Sefirot Numerology maps the classical Kabbalistic diagram onto the working practice of number reading. Each of the ten sefirot is a number with a temperament. Each of the twenty-two paths is a letter, a value, and a way of getting from one state to another. Put together, they form something no list of digits can: a map with directions on it.

Grounded in the sources

Built on the Sefer Yetzirah and the Lurianic tradition, with every correspondence table cited and every disagreement between schools shown rather than smoothed over.

Practical from page one

Forty-one tables, eleven worked readings, and a method you can apply to a birth date, a name, or a decision you are stuck inside of this week.

Honest about the limits

A chapter on what this system cannot tell you. Numerology is a language for reflection, not a mechanism for prediction — the book says so plainly.

Part I–III

The Ten Numbers

Select a sefirah. Each is a number, a Hebrew name, a gematria value, and a distinct way of handling force.

Part IV

The Twenty-Two Paths

Between the sefirot run twenty-two channels, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The letters are not labels — they are the verbs of the diagram.

    Letter-to-path attributions follow the ordering set out in Sefer Yetzirah 1:1 as received through the Kircher arrangement. Chapter 11 sets this beside the Ari and Gra trees and explains where — and why — they part company.

    Contents

    Inside the Book

    Part I Before Number

    1. 01The Point That Contains EverythingKeter · 1
    2. 02The First DivisionChokhmah · 2
    3. 03The Womb of FormBinah · 3

    Part II The Architecture of Feeling

    1. 04The Open HandChesed · 4
    2. 05The Closed HandGevurah · 5
    3. 06The Heart at the CentreTiferet · 6

    Part III The Working World

    1. 07Endurance, and the Cost of ItNetzach · 7
    2. 08Splendour, and the Trap of ClevernessHod · 8
    3. 09The ChannelYesod · 9
    4. 10The Kingdom Is the PointMalkhut · 10

    Part IV Method

    1. 11Letters as BridgesThe 22 paths
    2. 12Reading a Life on the TreeWorked readings
    3. 13Gematria in PracticeNames & words
    4. 14What This Cannot Tell YouLimits

    Appendices · Tables of correspondence · Glossary · Sources · Index

    From Chapter Six

    The Heart at the Centre

    Six is the only number on the Tree that touches almost everything. Tiferet receives from above and below, from the pillar of mercy and the pillar of severity, and it holds all of it without collapsing into either. This is why the tradition calls it beauty. Not decoration — proportion.

    A person carrying six is rarely the loudest in the room. They are the one the room organises itself around. That is a gift and it is also an unpaid job. The six who never learns to refuse becomes a junction that everything passes through and nothing rests in.

    Notice where the number sits. Above Tiferet, Gimel runs straight to Keter — the longest single path on the diagram, and the only one that crosses the abyss without turning. Below it, Samekh descends to Yesod. A six who does the work has a vertical life: they can reach up and they can reach down, and the reaching is the same motion in two directions.

    Balance is not the absence of force. It is two forces that have agreed on a centre.

    This is the practical instruction of the sixth chapter, and it is the reason we did not begin the book at one. You cannot understand a crown until you have stood under one.

    Try the method

    Find Your Sefirah

    The reduction taught in Chapter 12: sum every digit of your birth date, then keep summing until ten or fewer remain. Where you land is where the book begins for you.

    The author

    Amir Dagan

    Amir Dagan has spent two decades teaching Kabbalistic symbolism to people who arrived with a pocket calculator and a suspicion that there was more to it.

    Trained in classical Hebrew and in the history of Western esotericism, the author's work sits at the seam where a devotional tradition meets a practical one. Previous books include The Letter Before the Word and Counting the Silence. This is the first to put the whole method on a single diagram.

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    Published Autumn 2026. Pre-orders include the appendix of correspondence tables as a printable letterpress-style chart.

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