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I just read your article and i was touched. I am "very" frum from birth guy married to an even frummer from birth wife, who at some time when we opened our eyes and looked out of our inner tight circle, can get confused by the flash and glitter that the so called secular fashion world has out there. Therfore, when reading an article of such a special person who says "was there, done that" we feel so good that WE are in a better lifestyle, we expirience the true joy. Not all that glitters is gold, and excitement is not happiness!!! Thanks for the article, and I wish you a lovely long sweet life with yiddish nachas and kol tuv!!!
-0/4-/2003 |
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I fell in love with this amazing story and thought this is a mirror of my own life which I'm not happy in. I want out.
- T. B. -0/3-/2003 |
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Thank you so much for writing this article. My family believes that I'm being controlled by my orthodox boyfriend, since they can't understand the lifestyle I want, the lifestyle that you have. It makes me so happy to see someone quite a bit like myself make the same decisions and it all work out in the end. I can only hope my parents will read this article and be more comfortable. You've given me hope, thank you...
- M. F. -1/2-/2002 |
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Your story literally brought me to tears, tears of joy, with a new sense of the richness of our emuna. Although I’ve been raised on emuna bahashem it's always a big chizuk to realize that the world of materialism no matter how successful, is a dead end that leaves you empty and void. You've also opened a window into my understanding of the non-religious and their view on us.
My only hope is that so many other people will be inspired like you to come back to their true roots and to their father in heaven who awaits them so patiently and lovingly, and those of us who are already torah observant should grow closer and closer to hashem and his true torah.
- D. T. -0/9-/2002 |
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Your life story and your journey from where you once were, to where you are heading is indeed inspirational. I would suggest that you consider speaking tours to spread the truth of Torah Judaism to a world steeped in darkness and confusion.
Kol Hakavod to you for baring your innermost thoughts and feelings to one and all. I wish you and Aaron, many happy healthy mazel-dik years filled with growth and bracha and may you both "shep truckloads of Nachas "one from another. Hatzlacha
-0/7-/2002 |
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Your story is wonderful!!I became religious later on in life as well,and I totally agree on what you said about how religious people are so much more adjusted and more aware of others feelings then none religious people. I wish you and your husband much luck,and many happy, healthy years together.
-0/6-/2002 |
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M.Y., Torah changes a man. Encourage your husband to study torah and it will be a great investment in your marriage. I also started looking at my husband in a more positive light. I have reflected on the good things about him that I love and enjoy, rather than the things I dislike. The things I didn't like about him became almost a sort of hatred for me and now there is not hate, just appreciation. I think to myself, there is a person with positive and negative qualities, just like me and he loves me.
- E. A. -0/6-/2002 |
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A moving story... true to myself. The Reflection of who I am and where I've come.
- W. . -0/5-/2002 |
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I have read your story with intrest.
Though it is not all true; men who are married are not all that nice.
I am not saying that your husband is going to turn out bad,i'm saying you put everything in general.
- M. Y. -0/5-/2002 |
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Wow!! this article was such an inspiration i didn't think it was possible for someone of a non-orthodox background to be able to be accepted into this observant environment your article proved my thoughts as being wrong thank you for changing my mind!!
-0/1-/2002 |
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I too have to agree with this story.
- J. T. -1/1-/2001 |
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I agree with much of what the author has to say. I have always dressed appropriately and relatively modestly, but I find in my own community that often modest is confused with unattractive. My husband loves me for my inner self (as well as my outer self) the two should not be so different. I believe that a woman can be modest and still love beautiful clothing, that modest doesn't have to be synonymous with unattractive, or restrictive to movement, or too hot to function in the 90 degree heat of the summer.
I also believe that my daughters should be taught that some "looks" are inappropriate without dressing them in a fashion that makes physical activity difficult. So much focus on covering up also puts the emphasis on what is outside, rather than what is inside.
There is a happy medium.
-1/0-/2001 |
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As a woman who had lived a non-observant, secular lifestyle before... did you find it difficult to meet an Orthodox man who was interested?
- S. R. -0/7-/2001 |
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great article. really true especially "true repression" aspect. I also like the looking at what you learned vs to what you saw.
Women are not living in a vacumn and it is the obligation/ties of family love that allow us to grow and redefine ourselves as people. Making yourself do something for someone else when all you want to do is read/or eat or just sit down will do more for your character and soul then a lifetime of "Spa Getaway Weekends".Mind you doing the Spa thing is scrumptious but it doesn't make me realize G-d in my life as much as getting up and taking care of a sick baby in the middle of the night.
-0/3-/2001 |
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This is a great, thought provoking article. Thank you!
- D. P. -0/2-/2001 |
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I *completely* agree! I am attractive but have always been reserved in my manner of dress, etc., and it bothers me that many women think they are "liberated," but it only means what men are, as you pointed out, just looking at the outside rather than the inside. How can most men be able to look inside our souls if we're showing off our bodies and sleeping with people who don't really KNOW us? Great article. Thanks.
- W. K. -0/2-/2001 |
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