6/30/2023 0 Comments The blood guard series![]() ![]() And these protectors would have to do their work anonymously, because part of what makes these 36 people holy is that they are oblivious, completely unaware of their own holiness. Clearly, I thought, these special folks would need protection, to make sure they didn’t get run over while crossing the street or get knifed in an alley. ![]() It is thanks to them that God doesn’t wipe the earth clean with “the fire next time” that Ralph Stanley’s spiritual promised. And though I am a terrible scholar-the worst researcher-I did some reading and learned about something called the tzadikim nistarim, 36 holy people the Talmud says are living among us here on Earth. At one point, a character referred to another as a tzadik, one of the hidden righteous ones. ![]() CARTER ROY: The seed idea for The Blood Guard was suggested by a line of dialogue in a novel I read back in the ’90s…. ![]()
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