making the wall. women in the haredim are forbidden from becoming rabbis. her daughter will receive some schooling and then like her mother, she ll be expected to marry young, to have children and work full-time to support the family financially so that her husband can devote his life to studying the torah. i was born in the states. it is easier to live as a haredi here than there, because there you are full of distractions. would like to see this state be a little more forceful in applying halaka? yes, that should be the direction we should be taking. when i talk to secular israelis, i can t help but sense a kind of resentment. i don t think that attention is avoidable. if you claim ownership on this land, it s only because it said in the bible that god gave it to
relationship with god. tell him thank you for the good things and ask him for what you want to get. this idea that what god really wants for you is to be happy. it it s in many ways so foreign to my experience of the ultra orthodox but maybe they are on to something. god knows with everything going on here in israel, a little happiness might not be such a bad idea. now go away so i can have my alone time.
studies. the whole day we re thinking, when he comes home, that s when the real thinking begins. everyone was waiting for you. where is shmura? how was your day? you were able to learn? can t take that for granted. so, what did you learn about today? can you share? seat something while you re thinking about it. i feel like i ve learned more about haredim in those couple hours than i have in all the books i ve read. there is something so beautiful about their partnership, working together to fulfill the torah each in their own way. and yet i could tell he was
abraham, isaac and jacob. the same torah gives you a whole bunch of other things you have to do. i can t lie. i can t look at secular person in the eye and say, that s okay, you don t have to keep shop, that s okay. i can t lie. while she prepares dinner, i take a break to walk sha loem to the evening study. how old is your youngest? 11 1/2. what kind of school does he go to? he goes to a yashiva school, i imagine? he starts at 5:30, a ten-hour day. does he get the secular education? the very basics, math. one hour will be on secular studies. do you worrisome times that should he choose for some reason to not follow the haredi life-style, he won t be prepared for it? i m not going to prepare him to leave something that i don t
with god. i tell him thank you for the good thing that they re feeling and ask him for seeing that he want to get. all right. this idea that what god really wants for you is to be happy in my ways so foreign to my experience and the ultra orthodox, but maybe they re on to something. god knows with everything going on here in israel, a little happiness might not be such a bad idea. hi, now go away so i can have my alone time.