Holy Fire: A Novel [NOOK Book]

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Set 3,000 years apart, two stories are strangely interlaced. From the Bible comes the puzzling account of two brothers, who, though Priests, die mysteriously in the Tabernacle in the wilderness. What were these sons of Aaron the High Priest of Israel doing in that holy place late at night? How did they die? Who had motive to kill them?

Investigation casts suspicion on a host of relatives including their uncle Moses, their father Aaron, their ...
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Holy Fire: A Novel

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Overview

Set 3,000 years apart, two stories are strangely interlaced. From the Bible comes the puzzling account of two brothers, who, though Priests, die mysteriously in the Tabernacle in the wilderness. What were these sons of Aaron the High Priest of Israel doing in that holy place late at night? How did they die? Who had motive to kill them?

Investigation casts suspicion on a host of relatives including their uncle Moses, their father Aaron, their mother Elisheva, among others. The desert setting evokes unusual scenes; unfolding events provide insights and questions relevant to today.

The parallel account begins at the onset of World War II. Two brothers are growing up in a loving Sephardic family in Sarajevo. Their parents are killed by the Croatian Ustashe. Suddenly left on their own, the very survival of these pre-teens depends upon non-Jewish neighbors and Partisans. In the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia they barely survive. After the war, they find their way to Palestine, marry, fight in the War of Independence, and try to get on with their lives until....

Though separated by three millennia in time and set in totally different environments, the stories maintain a parallelism that is often stunning. The first story begins with the death of two brothers, while the second begins with the death of the parents of two brothers. The dramatic ending of each story brings, in an unexpected way, resolution and perhaps a sense of redemption.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940014316835
  • Publisher: The Sinai Press
  • Publication date: 3/9/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 284
  • Sales rank: 659,572
  • File size: 578 KB

Meet the Author

A graduate of U.C.L.A. and ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Zwerin received his Doctor of Divinity from that institution in 1989. After serving Temple Emanuel in Denver as assistant rabbi for three years, he founded Temple Sinai - a synagogue he proudly served for the next 38 years. He became its Rabbi Emeritus in 2005.

Rabbi Zwerin was co-founder and President of A.R.E. Publishing, Inc., a major producer of creative Jewish educational materials for children and teachers. He served as President of the Mid-West Association of Reform Rabbis and as a member of various community foundations and organizations.

His articles and sermons have appeared in journals and magazines. He wrote the inscriptions engraved on the major monument features of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Park in Denver and is author of the statement on the Jewish attitude on abortion distributed nationally by the NRC on Abortion Rights. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and editor of hundreds of publications. A recent work is Forty Years of Wondering: The High Holy Day Sermons. He and his wife Rikki have two married children and four delicious young grandchildren.
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  • Posted April 1, 2012

    Truly great read!

    The writing in Holy Fire is fresh and eloquent without interfering with the flow of the story. The parallel storylines, that the author so effectively interweaves, leads the reader to a greater understanding of the Jewish condition, and as a result of the human condition. Truly a great read!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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