The promise - Chaim Potok

In a passionate, energetic narrative,The Promisebrilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one's own way in the world.

Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He
also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps
it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.

One day, worried about a disturbed,
unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching.
Reuven also
introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders-now a psychologist with a growing
reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael,
Reuven and Danny each
learns what it is to take on life-whether sacred truths or a troubled child-according
to his own lights, not just established authority.