The Qlipot Chronicles

    For years I’ve written about the Hebrew and Aramaic roots of Scripture and the authentic traditions of Kabbalah and the Book of Enoch . Now I’m taking that scholarship into new territory— fiction. This is the opening chapter of my upcoming novel, Demons Don’t Keep Sabbath , the first volume in The Qlipot Chronicles . It’s a supernatural noir thriller that follows Rabbi Eliyahu “Eli” ben David—an Orthodox rabbi with a physicist’s mind and a demon-hunter’s scars. His weapons are not guns or gadgets, but chalk circles, ancient names, and the words of Torah itself. What makes this story different from most tales of the occult is its foundation. The demonology, the sigils, the Watchers of Enoch, the q’lippot —all are drawn from authentic Jewish mystical sources such as the Zohar and the Book of Enoch . And when Eli calls upon Psalm 91 , he is invoking a prayer that the rabbis themselves recognized as a shield against the shedim . The shadows are real, and the war has only j...