Husband tells Rabbi his wife wants a divorce...

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

hello hello hi hi this is more of a um uh advice question I don't know if you um you want this on your um if that's what your intention is with the um call in session but I'll go wherever you want to go with it and if I feel like it's not something I can answer I'll tell you you know all right um make a long story short uh we've been married me and my wife for over 25 years wife for over 25 years um something happened we separated we weren't fighting and the separation wasn't close from fighting um there was an issue with our child someone got involved some therapist spoke to my wife saying that you really um if you really want to see your door again your your your marriage is toxic your house is toxic you should separate therapeutic separation um so we separated and thinking that this would be a couple month mon each of us with Allen month mon each of us with Allen therapist which I voiced my opposition to that you know we didn't have one therapist dealing with their marriage um the therapist really didn't communicate much and there was no communication between me and my wife the her therapist said that in order to heal totally completely you should cut off all communication and you'll be able to heal faster and we all thought that we're going to be getting back together again mhm um after 9 10

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1. 0:00hello hello hi hi this is more of a um uh advice question I don't know…
2. 1:02month mon each of us with Allen therapist which I voiced my opposition to that you…
3. 2:03this you year or so I know I seems to me there's no hope is there…
4. 3:39yeah yeah so you know it sounds like there's a few things going on here um…
5. 4:41asking her before we separated I said what's your intention you want a divorce you want…
6. 6:14it seems like that it's possible you're not saying for sure but it seems it's possible…
7. 7:18anymore then it's effectively over anyway and divorce is almost just a formality at that point…
8. 8:18give it to give not to give it a try like that we should get help…
9. 9:53possible all right I shouldn't send people to talk to her anything else like that just…
10. 10:54worse for them like now they have two homes they don't have a they yeah they…

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