Описание: Malkah is just a little kid when she starts to learn her aleph-bet letters and her father tries to teach her to read the Torah. But they dont get very far. As Malkah reads aloud, her questions multiply. They take her on a lifelong journey deeper and deeper into the Hebrew letters, Jewish mystical texts, far off places, archaeological digs, and ultimately into the nature of existence itself. Malkah discovers an earlier, completely different story of Creation hidden right inside the one offered on the surface of Genesis. A door opens. So she walks through...
Every culture has their own creation story. But if one creation story is right, then all the others have to be wrong.
This is the problem that confronts Malkah, an inquisitive girl raised by her father after her mothers death amid the dusty scrolls and crumbling books of his enormous library. When Malkah begins asking her father questions about her own beginnings, he doesnt offer answers. Questions, he says, open doors.
And so Malkah begins her journey to understand her own beginnings by probing the creation myths offered by Judaism: the separation of dark from light, the shattering of the world, and the garden of paradise to which many have sought to return. Told in short verse and coupled with highly evocative illustrations, MALKAHS NOTEBOOK takes readers on a journey through mystical Judaism and beyond. In this story, questions become shards of light that illuminate the path to a deeper understanding of our own origins and ourselves.
When Malkah tires of learning from books she leaves her fathers library and travels the world learning from other cultures, digging through the past, and trying to sort out who she is and what she believes. She finally finds her beginnings in the Aleph-Bet, the Hebrew letters, and realizes that the letters hold intense spiritual power. In them she finds the origins of all of life, helping her understand not only her own creation story, but that of the entire universe.
