The Shul boy

A lonely young boy in 1950s Jersey City, who drags to school in the Lower East Side and whose father has a small synagogue on the bottom floor of their ramshackle house, Lipa finds himself alone often -- with his fertile imagination -- and an ambition: to study an old Mishnayos left by his grandfather, but he cannot understand a word it says. When he pleads, "Rabbi Bartenura, please come and teach me the Mishnah", he is brought into the worlds of the famous commentators and their perils. A world where ravenous hunger rages in Jerusalem...and danger looms over the blue-green waves of the Mediterranean...and an awful calamity takes place in Vienna... And then, one lonely summer's day, Lipa discovers an injured pigeon and returns it to its rooftop nest, where a pigeon breeder lives. The repercussions of it couldn't be more astounding...--