The Dream

"After years of captivity in a monastery, Shloime Strasbourg finally returns to his family and his people. But will he ever take his rightful place in the illustrious Strasbourg rabbinic lineage? Or will it come to an end with him? While studying intensely in the seclusion of remote Wielkowicz, he has a terrifying dream that warns of looming peril to his mother back in Pullchev. On his journey home, he befriends Elisha Ringel, a wandering adventurer. The two men travel together to Pullchev, where they find that the Rebbetzin has contracted a mysterious illness that is slowly killing her. Will they identify the cause of the illness in time to save her life? Meanwhile, they must also contend with the local priest who is inciting the people against the Jewish population, and a blacksmith who has appointed himself the ringleader. Escalating tensions threaten a pogrom. Danger lurks at every corner. The expanded edition also features a set of new chapters about a tragic period in the life of Rav Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, author of Tosefor Yom Tov, while he was the rav of Prague. It tells the story of his betrayal by members of his own congregation, the imprisonment, the imperial decree of execution, and his ultimate delivery from death. These historical events are drawn from Rav Yom Tovs Megillas Eivah"--