For young Reuven Malter, it is a time of testing. With his teachers, he struggles for recognition of his boldly radical methods of scholarship. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned his place in a rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer—he battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by genius and rage.
Painfully and, at last, triumphantly, Reuven grows into a guardian of the ancient, sacred promise to his people, while earning his hard-fought right to make his own beginning.
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