How can I get my sefer into the hands of yeshiva bochurim

What’s the name of the Sefer and where can it be obtained?

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Actually, if you could get the sefer into the hands of several well known roshei yeshiva or magidai shiur, it might have a more substantial affect that sending free copies to a few bochurim at yeshivos. Finding an askan or two associated with the releveant mosdos might facilitate getting the sefer visibility.
I suspect there are so many new seforim being produced, that most simply never get the visibility they deserve in Jewish book stores and anonymous mailings also are unlikely to grab attention in the clutter of mailings.

its simple- ads dont get seforim to yeshiva bochurim .
step 1. print a sample pamphlet with a few pieces on the perokim currently being learned in the yeshivos gedolos
2. there are sign distributers that drop pamphlets like toras avigdor, alim letrufa, peninim.. rav biderman..etc..
most yeshiva bochurim barely make it to a seforim store you would do better with the many kollelim

Have Rabbi Yair Hoffman write a (if deserved) glowing article about it on this & other sites with a link to purchase it at a deeply discounted price. Very few contemporary seforim by unknown authors make it, they usually end up in shaimos or collecting dust. Even great Roshei Yeshivos had little mazel with their seforim.

@fellowyid12234567890
Welcome to the CR, hope to see your comments with some deeper thoughts

Mistama’ you have to cater this Sefer to bochrem who need a little extra help.

Chafetz Chaim used to travel and sell the books himself (after checking that they are printed correctly).
Maybe that’s the secret?

Best bet is to write it in Hebrew, like all lomdishe seforim for the last thousand years. Seforim written in English or any other non-jewish language are a recipe for mediocre talmudic scholarship. Same for sifrei halachah and shutim.

This is a remarkable sefer. I bought both recently. I would encourage you to keep producing more and more of this.

I would say that you need to reach out to Eichlers, Z Berman, and the like. I would also suggest getting copies to people like R’ Yair Hoffman, Ben Rothke, and using facebook to promote it. I’d also consider an ad in the Yated or Hamodia.

Lastly, if you set up a fundraising page, it would help and I would donate.

In the UK you should reach out to J. Lehman’s and co in gateshead.

You might be better to reach out to yeshivos which are involved in lomdus on the parsha

i.e. the various brisks, and R’ chayim feinsteins talmidim.

Hatzlacha

Here in Eretz Yisroel there is a “הפצה” distribution that sells seforim in yehsivos and shuls, on tables.

thye will tell where and when to market etc…

Blau seforim
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Also “next to the mir seforim store” is frequented by endless english speakers – they double as a seforim storre distributor and library, and they let people read or reference seforim so it would be a very good place to start.

There are many people who never developed the linguistic skills to learn inside on their own. There are people who are megayer and who are chozer b’teshuva. There are also many people who go through the yeshiva system and struggle with learning disabilities, dyslexia, etc. Should these people never get to experience the mesikus and amkus hatorah? Should they just remain spectators on the sidelines of Torah Judaism their whole lives?

It’s far preferable that iyun and lomdus be made accessible to these yidden than for them to not learn and watch tv and movies. There’s only so much Kitzur Shulchan Aruch and Parsha and Daf Yomi people can learn; they need deeper works in order to remain interested in learning.

Lomdus on the Parsha by Rabbi Flohr is the type of sefer that should’ve been produced years ago.

I advocate Artscroll-type seforim which take the most commonly learned yeshiva limudim (Shnayim Ochazin, Hameivi Get, Chezkas haBatim, Ohr Le’arba’a Asar, Lulav haGazul, Eilu Metzios, etc.) and present an English translation and discussion of the commonly learned rishonim and achronim on the daf, with discussions culled from the works of the roshei yeshiva. In other words, imagine a yeshiva shiur explained in English for those without the background, broken down appropriately. This need not even be a huge production; the editors can get shiur notes from yeshiva shiurim, with permission of the magid shiur, and present it in English, interspersed with the appropriate translations of sources. Perhaps even YU roshei yeshiva would be maskim to such a project. It would greatly help yeshiva bochurim, as well as fathers of boys in yeshiva who never got to go themselves.

There is a Rabbenu Bachaya at the end of Parashas Ki Siso explaining the purpose of Torah Shebaal Peh with a parable. A king wrote a letter to his son commanding him with a process of behavior and the reward him for its performance. For fearing that the letter will fall in the wrong hands and requiring to fulfil the reward, some information he left out and transmitted orally. Originally Rebbi only wrote down what was necessary for the understanding as concise as possible. As the generations became weaker in their understanding, more elaboration was required. With this he explains the expression חסורא מחסרא והכי קתני the mishna left it out on purpose. The Ksav Sofer in Parashas Yisro from his father, the Chasam Sofer, has a different parable. A father had a gold mine and had multiple sons but he wanted that his youngest son should inherit it. In order not to create jealousy, he taught his youngest son the act of goldmining and divided it equally. As the others did not know what to do with it, it fell automatically to the youngest son. The Torah Shebeksav is a goldmine, the act of gold mining is the Torah Shebaal Peh and the youngest son are we the Bnei Yisroel. Hashem chose us by teaching us the Torah Shebaal Peh which is necessary to understand the Torah Shebeksav, the goldmine, letter interpreted orally.

Artscroll is cetainly sold everywhere. I think the notion that Artscroll is somehow an inferior product or not lucrative has been debunked. It sells like hotcakes.

The target audience for what is being described is not people who are looking to be at the top of Rav Avrohom Yehoshua’s shiur in Brisk. It’s for baal habatim, BT’s, gerim, working yeshivish people, people who want a geshmak, and as described, those bochurim who are struggling.

dag1, book authors often give tours and talk to the prospective readers about their insights. Maybe, you can post a couple of your samples of your lomdus here, in other papers and blogs, give interviews to Jewish radio stations? Many modern Jewish schools have school newspapers. Maybe print out a sample page corresponding to a weekly Parasha or Shvues and mail multiple copies to shuls and ask to distribute?

I bought both on Amazon a few weeks ago..

Daven for Siyata Dishmaya nothing else works

Dovrosenbaum wrote
“There are many people who never developed the linguistic skills to learn inside on their own. …Should these people never get to experience the mesikus and amkus hatorah? ”

Of course, that’s why we need more shiurim so that they will learn these skills and not just daf yomi or “high level” lomdus shiurim that don’t require the listener to work inside the text.