Available now from Mitzpe Press.
Thirty-one letters across a year of travel between Israel and the United States. A Jewish writer opens a door for a Christian Zionist friend onto the side of Jewish life the friend’s tradition has rarely shown them — the land in the religion, the calendar built around it, the architecture of forgiveness the friend did not know we have.
The letters are not a polemic. They are not a defense of Israel. They are not a theological argument with the friend’s tradition. They are a Jewish writer, across the rhythm of his actual life, opening a door for a Christian friend to see what the partnership has been on the other side of. The land as participant, not setting. The calendar built around the agricultural year of one specific country. The architecture of forgiveness — weekly in the Shabbat preparation, yearly in the yamim noraim, once every seven years in the shemittah of the land itself.
The book trusts the Christian Zionist reader to be an adult. It engages the partner’s theology by name — dispensational premillennialism, Darby and Scofield, the conditional and unconditional readings of Genesis 12 and Romans 11 — not to argue with it but to put a Jewish reading of the same passages next to theirs. The book never apologizes for Christian belief. It never positions Jewish belief above it. The grammar is and, not but.
Letters Across the Table is the relational volume in Mitzpe Press’s launch list. The other Uri titles — Holiday From History, Rooted Truth, Rooted in Judea — do the analytical work. Letters is for the supporter who has been giving and praying and visiting for thirty years and now wants to know who, on the other side of that love, they have been loving.