Noah benShea, Author
Maxit Publishing           

Jacob's Ladder is a little book filled with wonderfully big ideas about life, wisdom, and parenting.

Jacob, a character known to-and loved by-Noah benShea's readers around the world, is a baker and a sage who once wrote little notes to himself in an effort to help make sense of life. A humble man, he lived anonymously in quiet reflection--until one of his notes was accidentally baked into a loaf of bread. When it was discovered and read, word of Jacob's gift spread, and people flocked to him with the questions, great and small, that troubled their souls. All this attention forced Jacob to flee his community. But Jacob's destiny as a gentle teacher would not be denied. In this book, Jacob has returned home, and something stirring in his heart with lead him down an altogether new path: fatherhood.

In Jacob's Ladder a boy arrives at Jacob's door bearing a note that conveys the dying wish of an old friend. Jacob is to raise the orphan Jonah, and guide him until he is ready to sit at the Council of Sages. In this warm and enlightening adventure of the heart, Jacob discovered that "a teacher loves teaching. A father teaches love." With patience, Jacob and young Jonah understand their place in life together and apart.

Jacob's Ladder is a book about fatherhood; yet it is also a treasury of answers in the form of brief stories and parables, told by a baker who is a poet of truth and a gentle friend. The questions put to Jacob are as diverse as love and forgiveness, growing older and becoming young, spirituality and work, loss and laughter. When Jacob answers, we are wiser for listening.

Jacob's Ladder is a profoundly heartwarming fable. It is internationally bestselling author Noah benShea's most accomplished work. It is meant to be cherished, shared, and read and read again.