Malkah's Notebook

A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet

Mira Z Amiras author Josh Baum illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The Collective Book Studio

Published:1st Mar '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Malkah's Notebook cover

"Musing through a space that’s somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, Malkah’s Notebook is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology." —Foreword Reviews

Malkah is a child when her father tries teaching her to read Torah. But they don’t get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Malkah’s discovery takes her on a lifelong journey in search of her beginnings—into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately into the nature of existence itself.

Part bedtime story, part poem, part journal, and coupled with highly evocative illustrations, Malkah’s Notebook is a love letter to the Hebrew alphabet that unlocks life’s greatest mysteries.

Malkah’s Notebook... is an inspiring celebration of the Hebrew alphabet. * The Jewish Voice and Opinion *
Musing through a space that’s somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, Malkah’s Notebook is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology. * Foreword Reviews *
Both visually captivating and profoundly stirring, Malkah’s Notebook perfectly captures the woman’s journey— You will come away asking questions you have never thought to ask and perhaps starting to seek in places you had never thought to enter. -- Natalie Reid - Author of The Spiritual Alchemist: Working with the Voice of your Soul
Malkah’s Notebook is a book to be savored. -- Rabbi Elisheva Salamo - San Francisco and Johannesburg
Stunning visually, inspiring and deepening… a masterful depiction of a spiritual journey, of a life and a life’s work, of the holiness of questions, and of the magnificent harmony of many mystical traditions all presented with tenderness and love. -- Rabbi Lavey Yitzchak Derby - Omek HaLev Center for Jewish Spiritual Learning and Practice
Malkah’s Notebook is a fabulous piece of art, with food for thought in every image, letter, word, and line. Storytelling filled with new perspectives, full of imagination, inviting us to open our minds on what we thought we knew. -- Yair Dalal - Mizrachi composer, musician, and Arab-Israeli peace activist
An inspiring journey into the realm of Kabbalah. -- Daniel Matt - author of God and the Big Bang, The Essential Kabbalah, and the multi- volume annotated translation, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
Malkah’s Notebook: A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet shares the beauty of language, its becoming, its form, its meaning, and its wonder to fill the journey of life. -- Beowulf Sheehan, author of Author and photographer
Part long-form poem, part con­tem­po­rary illu­mi­na­tion, and part graph­ic nov­el. -- Jewish Book Council Awards - Judge's Remarks

ISBN: 9781951412340

Dimensions: 248mm x 184mm x 28mm

Weight: 1179g

312 pages