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Free reading & signing by Jewish Book Council author Michael J CooperBooks available for purchase at the event and in all formats including audible at http://michaeljcooper.net
Please note: This is a benefit book event for the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Fund. All proceeds donated to author’s sister’s memorial fund. Free Dreaming in Yiddish CD for every book purchased.
A knight torn between duty & desire
A rabbi devoted to study & teaching
A journey to Jerusalem
A love story
In the port city of Acre in the year 1290, Knight Templar Jonathan St. Clair possesses an ancient scroll with a cryptic inscription. When he learns that the inscription may hold the key to unlock Jerusalem’s Temple Mount secrets, he becomes more interested in learning Kabbalah than fighting Muslims, but time is running out—Acre will soon come under siege, and the one person able to decipher the inscription, Rabbi Samuel of Baghdad, is targeted for assassination. Deep in enemy territory, St. Clair apprentices himself to Rabbi Samuel and they travel to Jerusalem. On the journey, they’re joined by al-Hasani, a learned Muslim physician, mathematician, and cartographer; and by Zahirah, a beautiful independent-minded woman who avoids serving in an emir’s harem by hiding in a leper colony on the shores of the Galilee. Together, they travel to Jerusalem to fulfill their shared and sacred destiny as guardians of the Temple Mount.
“The Rabbi’s Knight is instantly compelling and fascinating in its arcane plot and propulsive pacing-great page turner!”
--Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, Founder of Spirit Rock Meditation center bestselling author of Happiness Is an Inside Job
“The Rabbi’s Knight is a well-written historical adventure story set in the twilight of the Crusades with unexpected twists and turns that keep you hooked—an exciting and historically fascinating read.”
--Andrew Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of the Homeland and Scorpion series
“The Rabbi’s Knight is fascinating as a historical novel, thrilling in the twists and turns of the story, and delightful in the manner in which important concepts of Kabbalah are presented to a general readership.”
--Ronit Meroz, PhD, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Division of Kabbalah & Hassidism, Tel Aviv University. Winner of 2020 Ben Zvi Prize for research of Jewish Communities in the East.
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