Gabriel's Palace by Howard Schwartz sync error and a fine-grained critique of

and a fine-grained critique of Sephardic plays as venues for moral education and politicization

where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn

climbed mountains

There's the Polish rabbi blackmailed by an American widow

Yossel Yurek is a thirteen-year-old Jew whose ingenuity in smuggling goods in and out of his community saved the lives of those dear to him - as well as his own

Gabriel's Palace by Howard Schwartz sync error and a fine-grained critique ofA vast bounty of tales recounting mystical experiences among the rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore. Now, in Gabriel's Palace, scholar Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and secular, in a marvelously readable anthology. Gabriel's Palace offers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales, involving experiences of union with the divine, out of body travel, encounters with