num_pages: 348
description: In 1270 the Book of Zohar a foundational book of Kabbalah is published amidst a controversy. Is it an ancient text or an elaborate forgery? When Crusaders Acre falls to the Sultan in 1291 a remarkable chain of events brings two ancient scrolls into the possession of Yaakov Ben Shlomo a Jewish refugee. In Revolutionary France 1798 before a young cavalry officer sails with General Bonaparte to the Middle East he is assigned a secret mission by his father. In 2006 when Superintendent Yossi Luria of Haifa Police is assigned to handle a homicide of a monk he is not yet aware that this case is going to change his life and career. Four years later a young Frenchwoman steps into the office of Luria by now a disillusioned private detective. Jean de Charney has found a 200-year old letter in the basement of her familys Normandy estate and has come to Israel to pursue an intriguing family mystery. The two quickly find out that the ancient mystery is still claiming lives in the 21st century. Their quest leads them through twists and turns and acquaints them with the mystical doctrine of Kabbalah. What they discover affects their personal lives as well as puts commonly accepted truths in a completely new perspective. The Kabbalist is set against a rich historical tapestry spanning 2000 years in old and new Israel  a birthplace of religious and mystical doctrines and the arena for numerous events which have shaped civilization. The Kabbalist puts the history and meaning of Kabbalah in a new astonishing perspective much like The Da Vinci Code did to Christianity.
language: English
title: The Kabbalist
publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform