Reply To: Going off the Derech

laebish-when you said that there is something in his basic identity that he resents, I think you hit the nail on the head. But it’s not bc he isn’t sure I value him more than Torah. It’s bc he resents that he is not ‘completely’ Israeli nor ‘completely’ American, and he’s actually said this to me a number of times. I don’t think, for whatever reason, he was able to fully integrate into Israeli culture when we moved to Israel. He is angry at us for moving to Israel, and he’s told us so. But at this point, there’s really no solution, bc he doesn’t feel he could ‘go back’ and live in the States anymore either.