Qliphoth, kliffoth or klippot (Heb. ?????? qelippot, meaning "peels", "shells" or matter,The Kabbalah or, The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews by Adolphe Franck translated by I. Sossnitz (1926): Relation of The Kabbalah to Christianity page 279 singular: ????? qelippah) and (sometimes (?????? the primeval "husks" of impurity) refer to the representation of evil forces in the mystical teachings of Judaism (such as in the Kabbalah.)The Book of Concealed Mystery translated by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers Judaic views All Judaic interpretations of the qliphoth agree they are the cause of evil and suffering (see theodicy). There are kabbalistic worldviews that seek to explain evil without use of the qliphoth concept, as aspects of the sephiroth (singular: sephirah) Binah, Gevurah and Hod. The Zohar describes the qliphoth as the result