About the Author
Tova Mordechai resides in Safed, Israel, and lectures throughout the world on being Jewish in contemporary society.
To Play With Fire
One Woman's Remarkable Odyssey
How does an evangelical minister named Tonica Marlow find her way to becoming Tova Mordechai, an Orthodox, practicing Jew? Born to an Egyptian Jewish mother and a British Protestant evangelical father, she rose through the ranks of her faith – ordained not only as a minister, but as a “prophetess” – while remaining unfulfilled and numb inside. This is the true story of her journey through two little-understood religious worlds, and the Jewish roots she ultimately found her way home to.
“My life is being driven by an unknown force.”
“Amplifies our own strange journey through darkness and light, chaos and order.”
– Simon Jacobson
“An unbelievable testimonial to the triumph of a Jewish soul.”
– Basha Majerczyk