Sefer Yetzirah

The oldest mystical text of the Jewish tradition tells no story: where the Torah and the prophets narrate, the Sefer Yetzirah builds. In a few pages of almost mathematical concision it arranges numbers, letters, elements and organs. Here is the translation Jaromír Hladík made of it in 1928, his first book and the only one published in his lifetime: vocalised Hebrew, a scholarly transliteration, and the reader's notes in which his whole thought is already sketched. In appendix, the complete German original (Hermann Barsdorf Verlag, Berlin), the language in which he conceived it. The volume that opens the Bibliotheca Hladikiana, devoted to the scattered work of the writer Borges immortalised in The Secret Miracle.