Reply To: Going off the Derech

MorahRach-That is very sad. I agree with aries2756. Maybe you could also mekarev your SIL before she strays further.

One thing I’ve learned from this whole saga with my son going OTD, is that I don’t think it was one particular thing that caused my son to go off, but a culmination of various different events/people…to the extent that if even one of the things didn’t happen, he might not have gone off. This shows me that despite all my soul searching, I can’t help but see the hand of Hashem in this painful picture. Everything was so perfectly orchestrated so as to give my son the full disappointment with the religious world. Perhaps it is his nisayon, and maybe your SIL’s boyfriend’s as well, to separate the ‘actors’ , whose performance was poor, from the Script….