Happy at Last
When someone who grew up frum has never been happy, never felt loved and accepted, and was always depressed about their life and everything in it... finally finds happiness... with a goy, I don't know what to feel. I dont want to begrudge their finally feeling happy. Why should i wish them a life of misery and suffering, as that is all yidden and yiddishkeit has been to them, when they finally found happiness at last, outside of judaism.
Yes, my neshama and halacha cries for them that they couldnt be happy with a jew. But me, personally, in a way i'd rather see them happy with a goy than depressed and sad and suicidal with no one and with yiddishkeit.
When I saw the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" it really reminded me of people like this. Yes, i want all jews, and especially my friends, to marry jews. But if judaism and everything about it is hateful to you and you are so depressed with your life, in a way, i'm happy to see you happy with a non jew, so long as you are happy, really happy.
Why does Hashem have it that some people can never find happiness until they find it with a goy? Why? Why? Why? I want to cry...
Yes, my neshama and halacha cries for them that they couldnt be happy with a jew. But me, personally, in a way i'd rather see them happy with a goy than depressed and sad and suicidal with no one and with yiddishkeit.
When I saw the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" it really reminded me of people like this. Yes, i want all jews, and especially my friends, to marry jews. But if judaism and everything about it is hateful to you and you are so depressed with your life, in a way, i'm happy to see you happy with a non jew, so long as you are happy, really happy.
Why does Hashem have it that some people can never find happiness until they find it with a goy? Why? Why? Why? I want to cry...