A work of intense contemplative and literary power that has guarded its mystery for more than seven centuries. A fraud of tricksters, 19th-century positivism called it. A holy and ancient book, orthodox Jews around the world still believe it to be.

To Christian kabbalists, from the Renaissance to late Romanticism, the Sefer ha-zohar ("The Book of Splendor") offered material for missionary propaganda, thanks to the Christological prophecies supposedly hinted at within it. To historians of thought and anthropologists, it appears as a precious document of a rarefied religious phenomenology. To great writers like Proust and Borges, it seemed an inexhaustible source of stories and cosmic scenery.

In this repository of arcana, everyone has found what they were looking for, even the recipe for happiness.

Einaudi edition, in Italian.