The true sto­ry of how one Peru­vian car­pen­ter led hun­dreds of Chris­tians to Judaism spark­ing a pil­grim­age from the Andes to Israel and inspir­ing a wave of emerg­ing Latin Amer­i­can Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties. When Segun­do Vil­lanue­va, born in 1927 in a farm­ing vil­lage in the Andes, lost his father at 17, he was left with a Bible as his inher­i­tance. This Bible launched him on a life­long obses­sion to find the true mes­sage of God con­tained in its pages. He looked for answers out­side the Catholic Church, and over years of reli­gious study, he explored var­i­ous Protes­tant sects and found­ed his own com­mu­ni­ty in the Ama­zon jun­gle before dis­cov­er­ing a ver­sion of Judaism he pieced togeth­er inde­pen­dent­ly from his read­ings of the Old Tes­ta­ment. His makeshift syn­a­gogue began to draw in crowds of fer­vent believ­ers. Then, in a series of extra­or­di­nary events, Israeli rab­bis con­vert­ed them and reset­tled them on the West Bank. Segundo’s jour­ney made him an unlike­ly pio­neer for a new kind of Judaism, one that is now attract­ing mass­es of peo­ple across Latin America.