Over the centuries since the
destruction of the second Bais
Hamikdash, various adventurers
and false prophets have laid claim
to the royal mantle of Mashiach and
promised to bring an end to the
long and bitter galus of the Jewish
people. These messianic
movements have almost invariably
brought tragic results, but none
more so than the catastrophic
messianic campaign of the
infamous false Mashiach Shabbesai
Tzvi, the central figure of The
Impostor, the fifth volume in The
Ruach Ami Series.

Viewed for the most part through
the eyes of the characters of the
Pulichever saga, the amazing story
of The Impostor unfolds d_uring the
middle of the seventeenth century
in the heart of the Turkish Empire.
Feeding on the profound yearning
of the Jewish people for the coming
of Mashiach, the mystical cult,
formed by the charismatic figure of
Shabbesai Tzvi and the burning
ambition of his disciples, threatened
to engulf the major Jewish
communities of the world. The
Impostor traces the development of
this movement from its earliest
origins with mysterious midnight
meetings on the shores of the Bay
of Smyrna to its hair raising climax
in the Imperial courts of the Turkish
Sultan. - from Amzon