Der Tempel: Roman

In a modest kitchen warmed by a flickering fire, an elderly Jewish matriarch recounts a tale she has told countless times to her grandson. She speaks of Simon, a devout youth whose heart is shattered when foreign hands raze the community’s sacred temple, leaving him to weep alone on a barren hill. One night a heavenly vision appears, showing strangers—Jew and non‑Jew alike—raising stones, hammers and gold to rebuild the holy house, promising that every act of love will become a brick in a new, radiant sanctuary.

The story then shifts to a wintry landscape where icy rivers glint like shattered glass and birch shadows paint the melting snow in violet hues. Against this quiet, hopeful backdrop, the narrator invites listeners to follow Simon’s desperate pilgrimage and the first stirrings of a collective rebirth. The opening promises a meditation on loss, faith, and the surprising ways strangers can become brothers in the quest to restore what was once broken.