Young Love: an interview with Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

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the globe and it makes you know help facilitates dating and um and all sorts of other all sorts of other things we do with the big shuttle phone each week and um pretty much then i collect art sounds good um so i'd like to talk to you specifically a little bit about dating and marriage in the orthodox community specifically marriage do you think that orthodox people um face challenges face challenges that other cultures might not and if so why uh yeah every culture based on how they're brought up face different challenges uh in orthodoxy i would say great challenge is that since uh there's no dating outside of marriage so it takes a there's a little bit of a learning curve to know how to relate the the uh into the opposite sex on the other hand there's this freshness where you're not changing you don't have where you're not changing you don't have all these memories of breakups and being dumped so it's a disadvantage and an advantage at the same time it's sort of a virgin on every level right so um we'll talk about both sides of it the positive and the negative so you know let's start with positive how do you have you specifically seen any examples of how it manifests itself positively like maybe from your own experience or your kids or people you know kids or people you know oh yeah without a doubt when i counsel uh when i counsel singles we're about to get married and you just got married sometimes i i forget how a little experience they have like flabbergasted like you don't like abc's but they pick it up right away but what's an example of something that they might not know i mean sometimes bedroom mannerisms are um

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1. 0:56the globe and it makes you know help facilitates dating and um and all sorts of…
2. 5:00about advantages some clear disadvantages or maybe awkwardness or difficulties that you've helped people overcome or…
3. 9:37yeah i remember personally i remember when we were engaged my husband my you know fiance…
4. 14:17there are some of the same issues that every marriage has um respect listening understanding feedback…
5. 18:58trust that my spouse will understand that i'm a human being i mean you know in…
6. 23:36you know that's what it's all about that that young fresh body i want to get…
7. 28:12so um i i think have you heard any nightmare in law stories because i remember…
8. 32:48uh you did yeah that's my son's name if she's never if you never met her…
9. 37:24consideration and love and happiness i mean the first thing everyone said about this girl is…
10. 42:06keeps popping out that's a mistake that's not a tragedy there's a difference tragedy means that…

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