Reply To: Going off the Derech

a mamin-thanks for your optimism,I need it.

Here’s another bit of interesting grief. My other son has been interviewing for yeshivas for next year. He recently interviewed with a group of boys, by a Rav who happened to have taught my other son years ago, before he went OTD (he now knows about it, however). My son came home from the interview quite upset, bc he said the Rav asked everyone a bunch of questions, and asked him only one. I tried to encourage my son by saying, maybe he already knows how smart you are bc of your brother (who really excelled in those years). Unfortunately, the opposite is true. I’m sure it’s bc my son is now OTD, that he rejected my other son. He didn’t even give him a chance….