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chalilavchas; Just want to send you my wishes for hatzlacha and koach. I have been in this parsha a long time and dealing with one who also can “shoot holes” through all of the arguments, until people are afraid to have a dialogue with him. I have been very disappointed in the results of all of our appeals to mechanhanchim and other leaders , but I think there is some truth that maturity will help. Hopefully they will arrive at a time when that “leap of faith” is no longer impossible to justify; they can give some slack on the demand for proof in a scientific way. Unfortunately, it can take years, and in the meantime those closest to these young adults are suffering right along with them. One point about following rules, in my experience these people can and do follow rules when the rules make sense to them, in their chosen career for example. But they definitely balk when the rules don’t make sense. I don’t mean to pry and you may not want to answer, but is your young adult academically gifted?