Chaimkel the Dreamer

Rabbi Noach Heller was very happy being the rabbi of the remote Canadian village of Port Iceberg. It gave him the opportunity to learn and teach Torah while providing his family with a simple but adequate livelihood. But then everything changed, and the Heller family was thrown into turmoil.

Chaimkel the Dreamer is the wonderfully funny and heartwarming story of the trials and tribulations of the Heller family as they move to Toronto and try to make a living operating a small Jewish bookstore. In particular, it is the story of young Chaimkel Heller, a boy blessed with boundless imagination, who is constantly trying to help his father, with some rather unusual results.

Enter the magical world of Chaimkel’s imagination, and discover a flying beis that can carry you high into the sky, nine ghostly men doomed to wait forever for a tenth man to make a minyan, a mountain of shaimos that threatens to engulf a good part of Toronto, a group of choosy esrogim carefully selecting their owners before Sukkos and many, many more. 

Parents and educators will also be gratified to find the pages of this book thoroughly imbued with excellent hashkafos and Torah values. Chaimkel the Dreamer will educate the child even as it stimulates his imagination.

By Meir Uri Gottesman