Israeli prose writer Jacob Shechter is known to Russian readers primarily as the author of the “Voice in Silence” series of books, in which he skillfully recreates the world of Hasidic Jewry, with its philosophy and identity. Exciting plots, unpredictable characters, unexpected parallels - the reality in Shechter’s works is multidimensional and rich. In the stories and tales included in this collection, the everyday and everyday are often permeated with the grotesque and are adjacent to the mysticism of Kabbalah, and the writer’s desire to solve the theological problem is truly innovative - to see the Supreme presence in the collision and intertwining of human destinies.