A quiet miracle told across four Shabbos evenings.
About the Book
Chaim Lefkowitz is an old Jewish jeweler living alone in New York, keeping Shabbos the way he always has — with one extra place set at the table, “just in case.” He survived Warsaw. He survived the camps. He survived the loss of everyone he ever loved. But on one gray Friday night, someone finally sits in that empty chair.
A polite, weary vampire named Vinnie steps out of the air when Chaim says, “Come on in.”
Over four Friday nights, Chaim’s table becomes a meeting place for the living, the dead, and the divine:
Vinnie, carrying a century of bloody mercy…
Elijah the Prophet, whose arrival is both expected and startling…
And a lost young woman who’s been waiting far too long to find her way home.
Set in the same universe as Psalm for the Damned, Chaim’s Song of Praise is a supernatural, Holocaust-shadowed meditation on loneliness, memory, faith, and the stubborn grace of L’Chaim — to life — even when life has taken everything it can.
Themes
- Faith in the face of suffering
- Memory, loss, and the echoes of history
- Supernatural visitations in ordinary rooms
- Small acts of mercy with eternal weight
- The quiet holiness of shared meals
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Related Works
- Psalm for the Damned
- A Psalm for the Dead (forthcoming)
- The Traveller — Book One of the Angelic Pact
- Other works in the Psalm Cycle Universe
About the Author
Rick Hoppe writes stories that explore the intersections of humanity, history, and the supernatural. His work often asks what mercy means in a broken world — and how even unlikely souls can become instruments of grace.
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