As the author Ilya Shtemler once did while creating the work "Look at Your House, Traveller," he achieved an unexpected effect. Astonishingly useful book. The book "Look at Your House, Traveller" came about as the result of a journey across the land of Israel. It is filled with uplifting emotional energy. It’s a very personal account of people who, by the will of emigrant fate, found themselves in an ancient and yet young country. The entire positive charge you get from reading it just begs to be spent on some kind of deeds.
“Not long ago I saw Shestinsky again in Peredelkino. I gave him my story—the result of two months spent on the land of God’s Lord, in the state of Israel—‘Look at Your House, Traveller.’ Oleg read it and got offended, seeing in the story things that weren’t there. He decided that I’m trying to put Jesus Christ into his barefoot childhood in Nazareth, to take Jesus away from humankind, to leave him forever a Jew. That’s the gist of the story’s pathos, you see. I thought Oleg was joking, but, unfortunately, he was serious to the point of gloom, and said importantly: ‘All my life I’ve been a believing Christian!’ (which surprised me—somehow I hadn’t noticed it at the Gates of God on earth). But then he added firmly: ‘In my thoughts!’
I spread my hands…” I. Shtemler