Reply To: Going off the Derech

jewish source- thanks.

Hudi-You are right that he is going through an internal struggle.

But we seem to be having a problem getting the message across how much we love him. No matter what we do, say, or give him, he feels like we hate him. I can’t even ask him if he’d like to eat without him getting furious with me for ‘nudging him’. Sometimes I feel like we lost, and there’s nothing we can do to help him. As much as you would think he loves his ‘new life’, since he always says how much he hated his yeshiva life, he actually now admitted that he’s not happy with his chevra-life either. But ‘it’s better than nothing’ he said. When I said to him, that if he’s not happy there either, then maybe he should give himself other options, and a chance at new friendships, to which he got FURIOUS! I’m just going to take a back seat for now, it seems whatever we do just rocks the boat…