Ne’im Zemiros Yisrael — The Life of David HaMelech.

A harp hung over his bed. At midnight, the north wind would blow through its strings, and it would play by itself — and the king would rise and learn Torah until dawn.

That’s not a legend someone made up. That’s the Gemara — Berachos 3b — and in this book, the actual words of that Gemara sit right on the page, in Hebrew, above the English.

Most of us know David HaMelech in fragments. A story from school, a Midrash from a shiur, a psalm from davening. And when we read a “story book,” we’re never quite sure: which part is the source, and which part did the author invent?

This book removes the doubt. Every passage opens with its citation in bold brackets. Beneath it: the original source, word for word — pesukim with nikud, the Gemara exactly as printed on the daf. Then the English telling. Nothing is invented. Every line can be checked — and you’re invited to check.

Inside:

• The complete life in 29 chapters — from Rus in the fields of Moav to the last charge to Shlomo
• 196 sourced passages from Tanach, Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashim
• Every Hebrew text set letter-for-letter from the standard printed editions (all named in the Note on the Text) — never from memory
• Goliath, Avigail, Bas Sheva, Avshalom, the threshing floor — the moments you know, standing on the sources you’ve never seen together

Read it straight through like a story, or slowly with the sources — at the Shabbos table, in your own learning, or as a gift for someone who loves the real thing.

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