The Keys of the Closed Garden

The world is like a kaleidoscope in which every moment something new happens that captures our attention, and it is a challenge to find time to engage with the spiritual world. On the other hand, one who keeps Shabbat has access to a place of bliss and harmony, a place where he can enter into a personal relationship with his Creator, a relationship in which one is aware of the other.

It occurred to me to convey the mystery of Shabbat to the reader through a narrative in which the heroine finds herself in a place where she has to focus on the spiritual because there is nothing else. And then, when she returns to her normal life, her yearning and challenge is to find her way back to that state of consciousness she enjoyed during Shabbat, and to learn what she must do to return to it every week.

Seeing the reaction of Rabbi Moshe Schatz, a kabbalist, who was a rabbi and a personal friend of my husband, z'l, when he read my book, I understood that I had found something valuable that can help many to reach their personal place in the Eden that is prepared for us, to which we can be linked in this life and in the eternal one.