The Promise Chapter Summary & Analysis - Book Two, Chapter Twelve Summary

Book Two, Chapter Twelve Summary

In Chapter Twelve, Danny and Michael discuss the treatment center's re-evaluation of Michael's situation given the previous night's incident. Reuven also notices that his father seems sick and depressed and Rav Kalman calm and subdued.

Abraham Gordon calls and asks Reuven to visit him at his seminary. They discuss Danny's proposed treatment for Michael. The teachers there love Reuven's father's new book and all are disgusted with Rav Kalman's attacks. But Professor Gordon wants to know Reuven's opinion of Danny's treatment. Reuven seems in line with everyone else, recommending the treatment.

Reuven reads the second part of Rav Kalman's article attacking his father. The argument, in brief, is that David Malter's method claims that there are errors in the transcriptions of the Talmud both unravels and destroys the Talmud's authority and accordingly the root of all religion; as a result, Malter's methods are dangerous. Reuven is furious.

Reuven realizes...
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