Hello, my name is Shlomo Levy, and I’m writing from Thailand.

That’s me in the picture above, putting on Tefillin for the first time in a year.

I came here to escape. I was in a top-level Yeshiva in Israel and doing well.
I had a broken engagement, which was rough.
When my second engagement broke, it was a punch in my already-broken gut.

But when my third engagement broke off, I completely fell apart.
This much rejection isn’t humanly possible to handle. I can’t describe to you what it did to my feelings of self-worth.

I booked a one-way ticket to the East and settled in Thailand. I’ve been here for a year now, living with the locals, and stopped practicing Judaism.

For a while, I felt at peace here, but recently, my soul started to stir.
In the beginning of January, an outreach director from Israel, Aharon, visited me for a week.
We spoke at length, and I feel strongly now that I have must to come home. My place is in Israel.

Thanks to the help from this crowdfunding campaign, I have a flight home for February 10th.
But I am an emotional mess.
The thought of arriving in Ben-Gurion makes me nauseous.

I need help. I need to find an apartment and settle in. I need therapy.
And there is no way that I can keep a job just yet. My mind is exploding.

Please help me come home. Help me return to my Jewish values. Help me define myself by who I can and want to be, not by my rejections and failures.

I cannot do this alone.

Mikol Halev,
Shlomo Levy

Message from the Organizer: We have a ticket for Shlomo to come home! I am very excited, but also worried for Shlomo. The upcoming piece in Shlomo's journey is wrought with emotional turmoil, and we desperately need more funds to make sure that he settles in well, and gets the professional help that he cannot heal without.
May the merit of joining this cause be of bracha for you and your family.

Endorsement from Rabbi Yaakov Zilberman, Yerushalayim

Tevet 5785
My dear beloved brothers,
I am turning to you with a rare request to *actually* save a soul in Am Yisroel.

This Jew has been estranged, very far, for a long time now.
There is a one-time opportunity to redeem him, to save him, to bring him back - back to Eretz Yisroel among his nation.
However, for this complicated mission to succeed, we need funds!
To pay for his journey home, and to set a foundation and structure for him to start his life anew.
This is a rare mitzvah to awaken his Jewish soul. 💎 It’s truly hatzalat nefashot.
Lucky is the one who takes part in the mitzvah.

Rabbi Yaakov Zilberman
Khal Adas Chassidim
Sanhedria, Yerushalayim