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Initial Critics Review translated 

"The manuscript is a book that analyzes and delves into the Hebrew Bible, from the author's perspective and point of view. He is not a religious person, as he testifies himself, but at a certain point in his life he began to read the Bible and delve into it, not from a child's point of view rather from an adult's point of view, and realized that there is so much to read in it, to understand the meaning of it, and to understand from it... He tells how he was very enthusiastic about the things he discovered about this book, which accompanies us all but is not really familiar to us, and throughout the book he provides examples from the holy book, and applies them to our lives - and vice versa: he explains things that happen in our lives through stories or passages from the Bible. This is how he formulates a book which analyzes the Bible and delves into it, but not in the style of 'analyzing the weekly portion of the Torah' but in a less orderly and freer way.

The manuscript is beautifully written. It allows the readers to go through a sort of journey that the writer went through himself- a journey that began with the first page he opened of the Hebrew Bible, and probably continues to this day. The writer shares with the readers the transformations he has gone through since he opened the book and read it seriously, and teaches them: teaches what the Bible gives us, teaches what messages it has, teaches about what it can say about our lives today and much, much  more. His writing is good, pleasant to read, very narrative, one that looks at the reader at eye level, and at the same time also allows him to 'connect' to the biblical story through our everyday, contemporary language. You can feel the writer's enthusiasm and the pleasure he derives from reading the Bible and researching it . I will state that in my opinion the text needs arrangement and polishing, since as it is currently written, it is a little more difficult to read than if it were properly organized and arranged. "

 

- Lectura department, Nivbooks

05.02.2024

Trailer

October 2022.

 

During his second year of living abroad and almost three years since Covid, Tomer felt it's time he starts gathering his life insights into a document, which will eventually become his first book, at the age of 35, a  Perspective on Life here on Earth, generally speaking.

 

During that time, while searching for an interesting audio course to fill his commute from North Park to North County, Tomer discovered a podcast on the Hebrew bible named '929 Together' by Rabbi Benny Lau. The podcast shared a unique daily learning technique of the entire Hebrew bible, which starts with the Pentateuch, the first Five Books of Moses. Although he wasn't religious by any means, Tomer was very excited for the opportunity to finally learn his own Bible (since they don't really teach that in secular schools), but also to grasp-seize the fundamental 'roots' of his native language, the holy tongue.

 

Tomer wrote this book during the year of 2023, the 75th year of Israel's independence. Named in Hebrew an 'angle of view' ("angle becomes point when feeling aligned"), the book ended up being 9 chapters, 60009 words, 155 pages (6x9") and 257 paragraphs long. In a light stream of heavy consciousness, filled with joyful poetry, mind shaking philosophy and a clear critical thinking on our current reality, Tomer invites the reader to see the world from his eyes, and to understand how everything is connected in God's way, the God of Abraham (the Hebrew man), and how according to the Torah, in the end of the day, naturally it's all for the goodness.

Questions and Answers:

Question:
Osman, on the one hand you write that this book is suitable for both secular and religious ultra-Orthodox, but on the other hand the entire book is based on the Tanakh and Jewish rabbis and has a bit of a religious smell. Is this a non-fiction book or a guide for someone who is becoming an observant jew?
                                                                                                                                                                                      Ariel. 7/23/2024
                                                                                                                             About: Back cover fifth sentence 
Answer:

It is not written that this book is suitable for the ultra-Orthodox religious and seculars alike.. the back cover of the book says "I tried to write so that everyone will try to understand in a similar extent, whether an ultra-orthodox who grew up without television, a secular who forgot how to read, and the focus (the target audience of this book) is between the third and fourth generation"- to the establishment of the state and the Holocaust.
That is, a spectrum of the two ends of us Jews, Hebrew speakers here and now: on the one hand a completely secular person (as I was not so long ago), and on the other hand an ultra-Orthodox who hadn't watched any movie, but believes in the Messiah and he is await eagerly for his comming.

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The book brilliantly relies on wise orthodox rabbis just as a scientific book relies on the best scientists who have studied the matter. See 70 interwoven sermons on the first and second pages of the book. I wish for all of us to be strong in our roots, and to rely on our sense of smell to distinguish between good and bad.​

Torah about the Torah 

Listening: "929 the daily chapter" with new eyes. ~20 minutes of hearing per day, and ~20 minutes of memorized reading in another part of the day. For the first time in history one can hear the reading of the Torah (by Omer Frenkel), accompanied by a clear summary of each chapter, and ends with 2-3 rabbinical sermons that accompany you all the way (Psalms as of today). Reading: Mamre website.

Imagine

Imagine you are old, healthy, and happy, age seventy five for the matter of it.

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