Divorce Is a Mitzvah
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Rabbi Perry Netter is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am, a large Conservative congregation in metropolitan Los Angeles. He is a frequent guest on TV and radio programs on the subject of divorce. An adjunct lecturer in Rabbinics at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, Rabbi Netter's work has been published in many magazines, including Moment and Sh'ma, as well as in the Los Angeles Times.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Existential Question:Why Is This Happening to Me?
2 The Hardest Question:To Leave or Not to Leave-How Do I Decide?
3 The Guilt Question: Is Divorce Kosher?
4 The Psychological Question:What Do I Do with All This Anger?
5 The Most Painful Question: How Do We Tell the Kids?
6 The Ritual Question: How Do I Get to Closure?
7 The Awkward Question:What Do You Say?
8 The Legal Question:To Litigate or to Mediate?
9 The Most Important Question: How Do We Continue to Raise Children Together?
Epilogue
"Afterwards: New Jewish Divorce Rituals"
by Rabbi Laura Geller
English Translation of the Traditional Get
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