A conservative rabbi who wants to find out about Jesus? Michael Kasner is just asking for trouble! Soured by the assimilated Judaism of his family, he leaves for New York and becomes a conservative rabbi. Finding that it"s not so easy to leave Spanish and the desert, he returns to the Southwest to find hidden "Marrano" Jews. There, he meets and marries one of them, and it is her angst that drives the rabbi to "find out about Jesus." Discovering how Jesus fits into history"s puzzle becomes a maddening task as he is confused by "mashugas." Visited from the Other Side by a long-passed relative who torments and challenges him, he undertakes a journey to solve a four-generations-old spiritual conundrum. On top of all this, he wants to recreate original, ancient Judaism, calling it "face to face," leading him to discover how to live from the inside out. It all gets wildly out of hand, driving many of the rabbi"s personal problems to the surface, but the spiritual pursuits that so...