A middle-aged man in Manhattan has a sudden epiphany that he is Jewish. He goes home to tell his wife, but then decides not to for fear of her disapproval. The next day, he looks through the yellow pages to find a rabbi. He finds one, and goes to get advice from him about his new religious awakening. The rabbi came to Judaism the same way the man did — through a sudden realization in mid-life, without a formal conversion — and tells the man that it’s his soul that is really Jewish. The rabbi also tells the man that he needs to tell his wife immediately. They agree to continue to meet.  When the man’s wife comes home that night, the man tells her that he is Jewish. She does not take it well, and calls him crazy. As the man starts to practice more and more Jewish traditions, his wife gets more and more upset. The tension culminates in a dinner to which the wife has invited the man’s therapist. She wants to talk sense into the man. The wife orders kosher food for dinner, in a gesture of open-mindedness, and the man invites his rabbi to dinner.  Dinner is immediately tense. The husband and wife argue, the rabbi takes the husband’s side, and the therapist tries to diffuse the conversation. As the conversation becomes more centered on the husband and wife, the therapist slips out. When the rabbi leaves, he tells the man that there is no good solution to this situation. The man returns to his wife, and they talk more cordially. He hopes she can love him even though he has changed.