Finished Book One?

The Reader’s Companion

Every scene in The Lamp of Darkness stands on a source — a verse, a page of Talmud, a Midrash. The Reader’s Companion walks you through them, chapter by chapter, with questions to think about along the way, so you can see where the story comes from and go further on your own. Notes, sources, and questions by Mike Feuer.

• All nineteen chapters: questions for reflection and study, then the sources, keyed to lines from the story
• 180 citations, each linked to the text on Sefaria
• The map of the Divided Kingdom
• Hebrew words and names — the novel’s glossary — and a who’s who of the sources
• 103 pages — PDF, EPUB, or Kindle file, read it on anything

Adapted from The Lamp of Darkness: Go Further Edition (2019), created with the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and made possible by the generous support of the Werthan family.

Haven’t read Book One yet? It’s free too. Reading with a class or a group? The Go Further edition adds discussion questions.