Tzadik (in Hebrew, «righteous») flees from pre-revolutionary Belarus to Pasadena, works as a shoemaker. He has a big family and a long life.
Years after his death, he tells his great-grandson in a dream where to find the manuscript he wrote. This story itself is like a dream. After all, dreams are dreamed not only by us, but also by the world, the author claims, the same great-grandson: he was already a psychologist when he met the wisdom of his great-grandfather, agreed with his idea that everything in the world is alive, and began to create his own practice of “living sleep”. It is wrong, he believes, to find out the «meaning» of sleep, applying mental efforts: «If you treat a dream from the standpoint of any system of interpretation or evaluation, then the living image … dies.» He offers a different setting — «to meet the miraculous, curiosity and presence in the present» and a system of exercises that will help to accomplish this.
Dobrosvet, Gorodets, 240 p.