How A Couple Chose Judaism After Hitting Rock Bottom

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

I was trying to to create a distance between myself and in religion because I I was wasn't able to understand what was happening. I wasn't able to understand why my sister was nifter. I wasn't able to understand why my father was nifter and I wasn't getting the the answers that I was really searching for. And so I ended up getting into finding more trouble. Like I said, I'm a trouble finder. And I basically lost my mind doing over-the-counter prescription medication. This episode will make you believe in the power of change also huge believe in the power of change also huge mazove. So stick around for what I'm talking about in the end of the episode. This episode is in memory of Shiman David Byakov Schlma as well as Miriam Msar Basyakov Mosha. Now this episode is powered by Will Ciss Zaler Simon and the Tusa community. Here we go. All the way from Cincinnati we got Nen and Esther Moore. I know I'm not saying it properly, but we'll get there. We'll get >> close enough. >> Close enough. Okay. Thank you so much for coming and doing this. for coming and doing this. >> You each have two very, I think, interesting, compelling stories, and then we'll get to the journey together, but first, let's start. We're going to start with Esther. Esther, could you tell us what your background is, where you're from, what your childhood was like? >> So, I grew up in the woods, like in a town of 200 people in Northern California. It's not normally how people think of California, but you know, like kind of a country town. And um my family life was different. Um up until the point I was in college, I was

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