A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and also a New York woman fall in love at a silly moment. . .after they become married. Leah Lever is wed to an Orthodox rabbi,'' Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is also a Jew and just a prosperous cardiologist. Jake is astonished when Benjamin dies however, less stunned as when he could be told , under an ancient Jewish Law, he's likely to marry the childless Leah to take on Benjamin's name.