{"product_id":"a-philosopher-adrift-in-the-michael-baum-9781918038972","title":"A Philosopher Adrift in the Sea of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Tannenbaum has just turned 83, a second bar-mitzvah age in the Jewish tradition. He is a fortunate man, emeritus professor of moral and scientific philosophy at the LSE. For no good reason he starts having panic attacks and recurring nightmares that wake him up screaming to his wife's despair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe dream always ends with him walking down a dark corridor that ends at a sinister door. He consults a psychotherapist and under hypnosis Jonathan opens the door in his dream only to find another corridor leading to doors of a cabinet holding the scrolls of the Torah. He cannot pass this new barrier, and the dreams continue and he is referred to Dr Nathan Adler, who is a qualified master of the \u003cem\u003eKabbala, \u003c\/em\u003ethe occult mysticism of the ultra-orthodox Jews.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Adler diagnoses \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethat sometime in the past, one of your ancestors was guilty of a crime that had terrible consequences for the Jewish race. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Kabbalist allowed Tannenbaum's dream access to the content of the cabinet behind the curtains and could walk through to any space\/time niche in Jewish history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHis weekly adventures adrift in the sea of time takes him through the creation, the Exodus, the fall of Lachish, the fall of the Temple to the Romans, the siege of Masada, the Lisbon massacre of 1506, the taking of Jerusalem by the allies in 1917, and finally Treblinka concentration camp, where he meets up with his grandfather.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTogether they save many prisoners from death in the gas-chambers, and his morbid dreams vanish and he is no longer troubled by panic attacks. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Baum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 191803897X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781918038972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Baum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d","brand":"Michael Baum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874490233087,"sku":"9781918038972","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-philosopher-adrift-in-the-michael-baum-9781918038972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}