Mitchell Chefitz


Biography

Mitchell Chefitz is the author of two novels published by St. Martin's Press, the LA Times best-seller "The Seventh Telling: The Kabbalah of Moshe Katan" and "The Thirty-third Hour."
His story collection, "The Curse of Blessings," was published by Running Press and is translated into German, Korean, and Mandarin.
He writes and teaches primarily on matters related to Jewish spirituality.
He is the scholar-in-residence at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, a center-city Reform congregation.

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Books

Blood Covenant    by Mitchell Chefitz
Price: $4.99 USD. 157470 words. Published on May 2, 2011. Fiction.

Blood Covenant, a mystical thriller, by “one of the finest of a new generation of American kabbalists. . . His teaching is disturbing, profound and inspiring." Here his novel is intriguing, compelling, and, at its conclusion, simply stunning. It’s played out on a multi-dimensional chessboard, with pieces accelerating toward an end game that will leave you . . . breathless.
White Fire: Angels Flying from Holy Letters    by Mitchell Chefitz
Price: $2.99 USD. 15860 words. Published on October 29, 2009. Fiction.

Allison, blocked from realizing her stories, visits her mentor Reuben, who takes her to his synagogue, opens a Torah scroll, and begins to read not from the Hebrew letters, but from the white space. "The Torah is written in letters of black fire on a background of white fire," he says. Within the stories he brings from the white fire she discovers the secrets needed to unlock her own stories.

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