❦ About

A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers.

Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to tame than the wind.

He hears what they call him. But he listens to the presence his father promised would never leave him.

Yisroel finds his way to those who nurture his healing gifts and rare compassion—until he embraces a destiny he cannot yet fathom nor deny any longer.

Honoring women, children, and the poor as his teachers. Celebrating life’s simplest deeds as worship. Praying with joyous abandon. Loving without condition. Yisroel’s “irreverent” practices threaten the established authorities, among them an embittered rabbinic leader with a mission of his own: to destroy the irrepressible master known as the Baal Shem Tov and his growing community of followers.

Set in the richly textured Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 1700s, this exquisite reimagining of one of history’s most revered and revolutionary mystics transports readers back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love.

❦ Praise For

The Tremble of Love

The message of the Baal Shem Tov―ecstatic seeker, compassionate healer, mediator, mystical teacher, and peacemaker―is as needed today as it was in his lifetime: our capacity to love and care for the other is the path to lasting peace and harmony.

–DR. PAULA GREEN, founder and senior advisor, Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

Ani Tuzman’s lovely, heartfelt prose draws us into a tale filled with mystery and power, evoking a lost world and introducing us to one of the truly great mystics of the Western world. A beautiful book.

–SALLY KEMPTON, teacher of yoga philosophy and author of Awakening Shakti and Meditation for the Love of It

Ani Tuzman has written a rare novel in which her love, both of the subject and of the act of writing, is palpably present. Perhaps this is what has allowed her to bring to birth a new Ba’al Shem Tov, appropriate to the twenty-first century.

–ARTHUR GREEN, Neo-Hasidic teacher and rector, Hebrew College Rabbinical School

An historical novel of epic proportion, The Tremble of Love leaves the reader with a sense of connection to the great cycles of life and the holiness that pervades all things. The Tremble of Love is an invitation into the heart.

–REVEREND NANETTE SAWYER, author of Hospitality–the Sacred Art: Discovering the Hidden Spiritual Power of Invitation and Welcome

The Tremble of Love presents a world where death, loss, tragedy, accident, and disease are never far away, but also where the human capacity to hold and heal are almost always nearer than imagined—because God, who is Love, is also astonishingly nearer than imagined.

–RABBI NANCY FLAM, cofounder of the National Center for Jewish Healing, founding director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality

The Tremble of Love is a book that nourishes the spirit, a book for people of all faiths―as well as for those who have lost faith.

–FATHER GILBERT ARANHA, Executive Secretary for the Bishops’ Conference for Ecumenism and founder of JPK House of Love (Prema Nilaya), Mysore, India

I left the world while reading Ani Tuzman’s novel and came to love the world more.

–DAN SHANAHAN, poet, The Lotus Seed Poems, The Alaska Poems, and Crystal Lake

This work is destined for greatness, in the holiest sense of the word.

–REVEREND CARLOS ANDERSON, founder of One Life School Ministry & New Genesis Foundation

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❦ Sneak Peek into Book Features

Preface

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“Ways of Seeing” Mysticism Series with The Tremble of Love.

 

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Empower Radio: David Franklin Farkas Interviews Ani

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Going Deeper: Marcie Sclove Interviews Ani (Video)

BEHIND THE SCENES: THE WRITING JOURNEY

The Call to Write The Tremble of Love

People have asked me how it was that I came to write a novel about the Baal Shem Tov.  Read more

11 Little Known Facts about the Writing of The Tremble of Love

The writing of this novel has been a long journey that isn’t ending …  Read more

The Gift of Presence

How the inestimable gift of one person’s presence made all the difference. There are many behind-the-scenes stories… Read more

Join Ani’s Inner Circle

A great way to stay connected with Love:
Harvesting Love letters. Book excerpts. Recordings.
Resources to help you free the voice of your heart. And more.