Omri Peled Says Even the Religious Must Choose Faith Anew

Omri Peled, who first planned to become a lawyer and later became a prominent online creator, says his success did not satisfy a deeper search for meaning. In an interview with "Neshamot Tzamot," he describes how daily persistence in writing about love, dating, heartbreak, Jaffa, and life itself gradually built an audience, even though early reactions were minimal and friends mocked his posts.

Peled says the key lesson was consistency, not instant success. A close friend told him to do whatever he loved every day, and he kept publishing regularly for years, eventually collecting thousands of followers, podcast work, and community attention. "If you do something every day for a year, something happens," he says, adding that the change was internal as well as external.

He says his spiritual turn began almost by accident during a personal breakup, when a friend sent him Shlomi Shaban’s song "Canaan," which led him to the biblical story of the spies. Curious rather than religious at first, he started studying and found himself drawn into Jewish texts. He says he had previously searched for answers in philosophy, self-help, Buddhism, and other spiritual paths, but later felt that Judaism connected him to his roots and to himself.

Peled now argues that even people born into religious homes must choose faith for themselves. "Even someone born religious needs to do teshuvah," he says, meaning a renewed personal decision rather than a move from secular to religious life. He describes God as "invisible," saying that if the divine were obvious, there would be no free choice, and adds that people, money, and politicians are only messengers, not the source of reality. He says keeping Shabbat, which began with disconnecting from screens and expanded over time, changed his life, and he believes every person has a unique message that only they can bring to the world.