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The daughter of a rich Hasidic entrepreneur, Batsheva Ha-Levi matures in the rich suburbs of L A. But everything changes when she becomes eighteen and discovers that her caring dad has created a secret promise that'll break her life, forcing her to marry a guy she barely knows and delivering her to the unique, gold town of Jerusalem.  On her big day, she enters an international and strange planet surrounded by fantasy and steeped in history.  Shackled by historic guidelines, she quickly realizes that to survive she'll don't have any option but to fight for her independence, to reunite her own need certainly to reside in today's modern world with her ancestral responsibilities, and to choose between the several men who vie for her body, her spirit, and her love.Now a vintage outlined among the main one hundred most significant Jewish books of time*, Jephte’s Child is best-selling writer Naomi Ragen’s favorite initial novel.  With poignancy and perception, it requires visitors on the innovative and memorable journey inside the hidden world of ladies in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. *100 Crucial Books For Jewish Visitors, Rabbi Daniel W.