Les Idroth

The summit, and the end, of the kabbalistic trilogy: after the Sefer Yetzirah (1928) and the Sefer ha-Bahir (1931), Hladík translates the two Idroth, the 'Assemblies' of the Aramaic Zohar (around 1280). In the Greater (Idra Rabba) and the Lesser (Idra Zuta), Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai unveils to his companions the theosophy of the divine 'faces', Arikh Anpin, Ze'ir Anpin, Atika Kadisha: three companions die of it, and the master himself on the last page, at the instant his word is completed. Twenty-five selected passages, in Aramaic, transliteration and translation, with Hladík's notes. In appendix, the German original (1933, unpublished). The last panel of the Bibliotheca Hladikiana's trilogy.