A Chassidic family living in Yerushalayim — brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. Intelligent and idealistic, each of them searching for the light that seems just beyond their reach.

A sensible woman, dedicated to her husband’s learning, yet secretly fearing the stress will drive her mad. Those voices in her head — are they hers?

Her brother — so principled, so rigid, until he sees he must bend or break.

A little girl and a grown girl, both terrified of the thing they want most.

A young man defying his parents, yet craving their love.

Two brothers at war, until they realize how much they need each other.

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Join the dance between family members who seek different things in their lives, yet will go through shame, pain, and debt to help one another.

A dance between the benefits afforded by the wider, exposed world of knowledge and technology and the unbending purity of insularity.

A deeply internal dance between one’s highest aspirations and all-too-real vulnerabilities.

The dance between our desire to be true to our selves and our dreams, while also being a faithful member of a couple, a family, and a community…

By Ruti Kepler, author of All I Ask and Normal Like Me.