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Aliza and Ephraim Bulow: When A Spouse Loses Faith

4.4K views · Mar 31, 2023

Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky

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differences in generations and how each generation kind of negotiate creates religious differences political differences differences in maybe mental health struggles whatever it may be connecting one to another and we really do this because so much of what this podcast is about is the notion that we live in a generation of unprecedented institutional strength you know we're a generation that grows up mediated through Jewish institutions and the strength of our Jewish institutions which are incredible and should continue to be strong has created a new population of kind of post-institutional Judaism where for the first time for many people could be in their 20s they step out into the world and they don't have a teacher they don't have a classroom they don't have a schedule that kind of mediates and moderates their Yiddish kite their Judaism and they're stepping out into the world for the first time and in a lot of ways the original institution that I think in some ways not in a malicious way not deliberately but in some subtle ways has kind of eroded its emphasis in the face of the very strength of our standard Jewish institutions is the original Jewish institution and that is the institution of the family and every year we try to come back before pesach because pesach really comes back to that original building block of the Jewish people which is the Family itself gathering around the paceox later there are halachic ramifications about each family participating in the carbon pesach of the times of the temple when they would offer the sacrifice of

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  1. 1:01differences in generations and how each generation kind of negotiate creates religious differences political differences differences
  2. 6:47much more vulnerable relationship the love that emerges from that relationship can be much richer can
  3. 13:11was a little kid we lived in Connecticut we attended a young Israel school and I
  4. 19:30that sentence of I'm not going to ask and he's not going to tell and we're
  5. 25:45would not I was very moved when you said that you split the kavana you split
  6. 32:43as a Torah teacher and it was clear to the rabbi that I worked with there
  7. 38:30feel like it's a Triumph what we have created is a try I am and there
  8. 44:49because that get is again USA and I can't get out of this marriage I don't
  9. 50:40a way he was worried about it and I said stop worrying about it because we're
  10. 56:57himself titling something just to prove to me that he did and I was like I

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