The Shul Boy

Softcover 6" x 9" 344 Pages Written by: Rabbi Meir Uri Gottesman Published by: Israel Bookshop As a young boy in Jersey City in the 1950s, Lipa Wallerstein’s whole world consists of his father’s small synagogue on the bottom floor of their ramshackle house. With no Jewish friends nearby and a family that doesn’t take much interest in him, Lipa finds himself alone more often than not — but always in the company of his fertile imagination… and his one burning ambition: to study from an old set of Mishnayos left by his grandfather, a great tzaddik. But when he opens a volume and peers at the page, he cannot understand a word it says.    His zeide always taught him: When you learn Torah, you must see the tzaddikim whose words you study standing right before you! And so, Lipa pleads, “Rabbi Ovadiah Bartenura, please come and teach me the Mishnah…”    It isn’t long before a whole new world opens up for Lipa. It is a world of Torah — and a world of great peril. A world where ravenous hunger r