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Автор: Rabbi Mel Silverman
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 324
ISBN: 9781457516931
This is the story of a dissident rabbi along with members of his synagogue who, in search of a fuller, more relevant Judaism, decide to immigrate to Israel via ship. Each member relates, in the manner of Chaucer's broadly diverse group of characters relating a series of personal tales in which the pilgrims argue, interrupt one another, or comment on the tales being told, as they travel to their common goal. One other rabbi, the ship's Jewish Chaplain, restless, hedonistic, desirous of something more, takes a cynical view of his righteous-minded colleague. The story's dramatic effect occurs when the ship's billionaire and visionary passenger, himself a product of mixed (patrilineal) marriage, overhears the two rabbis conversing one night and persuades the emigrating rabbi to aid migration of thousands of American Jews to Israel. The plan goes awry. The renegade rabbi's true motive for immigration is revealed.Th e other migrating Jews, their motives for immigration...
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