Malkah is a child when her father tries to teach her to read Torah. But they don’t get very far. As Malkah studies, her questions multiply. She discovers an earlier, hidden story of creation within the Hebrew Aleph-Bet letters in the first line of Genesis. And a door opens. Thus starts the award-winning film, The Day before Creation, and its companion volume, Malkah’s Notebook, documenting Malkah’s lifelong journey into Jewish mystical texts, far-off places, archaeological digs, ancient gods, and ultimately…