Table of Contents

Prologue 1

False Messiahs 2

Legendary Times, Legendary Persons 5

Paradise Lost 6

Nimrod's Protect 8

Episodes in the Life of Their Savior 18

Rabbi Nachmitz, the Second Besht 24

The Idiot 27

Our Beginnings 29

Mamas Boys 30

How I Became a Writer and Then My Father Died 47

Betrayals 64

Irreverence 71

The Last Supper 89

Tribalism on Campus 102

Midlife 119

Departures 120

The Tell-Tale Cat 132

End Times 137

Tolstoy 138

A Practical Joke 148

Epilogue 157

At The Window 158