The Book of Letters: A Mystical Alef-bait

About this book

In calligraphy by the author. Folktales about and exploration of the mystical meanings of the Hebrew Alphabet. Open the old prayerbook-like pages of The Book of Letters and you will enter a special world of sacred tradition and religious feeling. More than just symbols all twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet overflow with meanings and personalities of their own. Rabbi Kushner draws from ancient Judaic sources weaving Talmudic commentary Hasidic folktales and Kabbalistic mysteries around the letters. Each letter is illuminated and together with the comments is presented in the author s original calligraphy recalling the look and feel of ancient medieval manuscripts.