Most students of Kabbalah find themselves "visualizing" its cosmogonic and cosmological teachings. The iconic "Tree of Life" is certainly the best-known kabbalistic symbol and is often the first thing conveyed to those being exposed to this lore. What few realize is that complex graphical scrolls have been a genre of kabbalistic literature in their own right since the Renaissance, and that from the late seventeenth century such scrolls became indispensable to Lurianic kabbalists. In this presentation, Professor J H Chajes (U Haifa) will introduce this little-known genre and explain the origins and functions of these amazing kabbalistic artifacts. Chajes’s "The Kabbalistic Tree" (Penn State, 2022) is the first-ever study of this practical expression of Kabbalah, about which he is the preeminent authority.