Nshei Discusses Frum Remarriage

The N’shei Chabad Newsletter is famous for dealing openly with difficult issues that other publications avoid. They’ve broken new ground now, answering the question: When a man tragically loses his wife and wants to remarry, should grown children be allowed to stand in his way?

In the Shvat issue of NCN, Rabbi Gershon Schusterman addresses this question in his landmark article, “Is There Life After Death?”

Eliezer Sobel describes the 70-year marriage of his parents, Max and Manya Sobel. Zlata Gitlin teaches readers how to wash their own sheitel at home. And Rabbi Shea Hecht and Rabbi Aron Moss discuss the question of what to do when you are almost engaged or already engaged and having doubts.

One of Rabbi Moss’s tips:

“Here’s a good way of testing whether the doubts are cause for concern or not. Are the doubts stronger when you are with your fiancé or when you are apart? Normal doubts come when you are lying awake late at night or when you are alone and your mind is churning. Ignore them. But doubts that arise from actual interactions and real conversations need to be closely examined.”

Rabbi Shea Hecht responds to a single mom who worries about her children having marriage skills with this tip:

“It is important for your child to have a set of ‘heroes’ who they feel exemplify a happy and healthy marriage. It is a good idea for single parents to help and encourage their children to spend time in homes with happily married couples, for example aunts and uncles, grandparents or other family members. This can give them the confidence and know-how to have happy marriages themselves.”

Shimon Goldman was a child when he ran away from his mother in a public square. He had asked his parents for permission to flee Poland, but they had refused him, as they had no-one to send him to. As he tells it, “I was never a rebellious child and I did not enjoy contradicting my parents, but I felt a powerful inner force urging me to get out of German territory if I expected to survive.”

Read about his remarkable life from his own perspective as well as the perspectives of his wife, children, niece, and grandchildren.

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