“The Kabbalistic Tree of Life has a dark side, the Tree of Qliphoth, which is also known as the Tree of Death.
(Hebrew קליפות) Also kliffoth, klippot or kellipot. “The World of Shells.” From קליפה, meaning “peel, shell, rind (cheese), skin, cortex, crust, hull, husk.”In Kabbalah, the term klipoth refers to the inferior worlds, the inferno, hell, or abyss. The Klipoth is so named because the souls who descend into the inferior worlds descend without the connection to their own inner divinity, therefore they are “empty shells.”