The Rabbi Who Loved his Wife Above All Things: A Fable by Sara L. Jackson

A miracle is bestowed upon Rabbi Mildferd one spring day in Connecticut. A wild, nude, wordless woman catapults herself into his life, after being transformed from a silver lime tree. Like a newborn knows his mother, she knows and loves the Rabbi completely and without fear. No sooner than she comes, their happiness is threatened when the woman contracts a terrifying shrinking-disease. The Rabbi is at a crossroads; be her caretaker until the disease takes her, or sacrifice himself so she may live.