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 I just posted the anonymous comment. If you'd like to contact me my email is: daniel.poynter@gmail.com


I'm sorry for what happened to your son. I think my parents felt similar pain as you as I sped off into Orthodox Judaism.

Thank goodness for blogs like this. It literally helped me maintain my sanity when I was in that ideological pressure cooker of yeshiva.

(If you haven't been you don't understand. Wake at 7am. Pray with 30 other men. Pray before breakfast. Speak about Torah at breakfast. Classes about Torah. Pray before lunch. Speak about Torah at lunch. Afternoon classes about Torah. Pray with 30 other men in the afternoon minyan. Classes about Torah. Pray before dinner. Talk about Torah at dinner. Pray with 30 other men at evening minyan. Study Torah in the beis ha medresh with everyone else until 8 or 9. Go back to your room. Fall asleep. Start over. Rinse and repeat for months and months and months and months. No internet. No outside world. A bunch of intense, idealistic men striving to escape the sin of masturbation and a seemingly corrupt world. Ugh.)

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