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Sunday Oct 18, 2009
A Woman's Own: 'A hole in the sheet' - the life of a woman who escaped from Gur hassidut
Posted by Elana Sztokman
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Sara Einfeld, 25-year old mother of two, ran away from her Gur Hasidic life. In the process she began a blog, called Hor Basadin, which attracts many struggling haredi women. Yediyot Aharonot exposed her story in last weekend's newspaper, and has since caused a buzz in haredi and secular circles alike. I blogged about it in this week's Forward Sisterhood. You can read the whole post here. In the meantime, though, here is a heart-wrenching poem that Einfeld posted last week in response to the hubbub (translation mine): I still cry when I remember Who made charts and asked, So what's bothering you? That we don't pass objects from hand to hand And then I was embarrassed And when I tried to tell him, I felt dirty. And how I cried one day so hard until I banged my head against the wall over and over again And he He went to the Shteibel And I wanted to die, I wanted to die, I wanted to die. Because our sages (or rather, his sages) also said, "O hevruta o mituta,"
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Joseph London,
Monday Oct 19, 2009
An interesting alternative interpretation of the saying of the Sages. Many of us understand it to refer to a chavruta in learning, i.e. a partner to share one's learning, not a marriage partner. There are, of course, many sayings praising marriage such as all the blessings a man receives are because of his wife, etc..
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DALevit Palm Springs, CA USA,
Wednesday Oct 21, 2009
With all due respect, your post implies that the "separation" is indefinite, and yet it is only for the two weeks during the time of the female's flow. Is the morbid sentiment expressed really necessary, when all will all go back to normal soon? Is that 2 weeks enough to nullify everything else good about the relationship? Won't there be plenty of hugs and kisses in a few days, after the period of uncleanness passes? Anyone reading this with no knowledge of the Orthodox ways would get a terribly distorted view of things from reading this. DAL
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