It’s said that in Jerusalem if one walks ten feet in any direction he’ll end up at an archeological site. At the Temple Mount, however, we know he doesn’t have to move an inch. The ground there is saturated with history; it’s the archeological jackpot. The mother of them all.
Now comes author Ruchama King Feuerman to mine the Mount for all its dramatic potential in her new novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist. In September 2013 her book hit the internet and Amazon.com with a lot of noise – so much so that last month the book went to hardcopy-paperback. And testifying to Ms. Feuerman’s mastery of her craft, The Wall Street Journal’s book reviewer describes the In the Courtyard as “engaging… brilliant…a manifestly terrific novel...”; the best novel he’s read “in ages.” Recently the book was named as a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award – highly unusual for a book with an authentic Orthodox viewpoint.