Pur­ple Mon­key Books, a van­i­ty press, presents the first in a series focus­ing on Maya and Josh’s Canaan Dogs, Sephi­ra and Shem, and the kab­bal­is­tic jour­ney on which the dogs take their ​“own­ers.” This first jour­ney intro­duces Shem and Sephi­ra as knowl­edge­able talk­ing dogs that are able to trav­el through ​“any­when.” When Maya does not take her home­work assign­ment for Hebrew school seri­ous­ly the dogs find it imper­a­tive to show both her and her younger broth­er Josh the sig­nif­i­cance of cre­ation. In order to trav­el to that time, they must first ask per­mis­sion of the coun­cil. Embed­ded through­out the text are ref­er­ences to kab­bal­is­tic, his­tor­i­cal, and Torah­based terms. These terms are explained in text box­es as well as a short glos­sary at the end of the book. The con­cepts range from Rosh Hodesh to a kab­bal­is­tic inter­pre­ta­tion of par­gode. The sto­ry and char­ac­ters are geared to young stu­dents still in Hebrew school but the ideas pre­sent­ed are often quite com­pli­cat­ed and dif­fi­cult. The inclu­sion of the dogs allows for the thin­ly plot­ted sto­ry to be more per­son­al and light so that the book may be under­stood on a basic time trav­el lev­el as well as the more eso­teric kab­bal­is­tic plane.