Reply To: Going off the Derech

JustThink-You are right in theory, and I’ve told my son, if you don’t want to be haredi, then don’t. But why reject Torah completely, you just don’t have to be as machmeer as we are. But in practice, in doesn’t work. It’s almost as if (and it’s not just my son, it’s pretty much EVERY kid who goes off the derech from a haredi family over here), that the kid has to reject the whole thing, in order to find out what he wants (if he wants) to come back to. And I have seen some kids from haredi families come back, but not to the same level as the parents. But for some reason, they couldn’t take that direct route in the first place, and avoid going off the derech. They had to do it in this painful way, unfortunately…