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(More customer reviews)If you want to read an honest representation of what a divorce and a Get look and feel like, this is your book. It's a quick read and you will have to indulge the author in her attempt at prose on evey other page...let it go.
While the author isn't willing to come right out and say that her ex-husband was a thoughtless pig, I will. This man is a selfish, scheming, faithless and deceitful swine. The day she received her divorce papers, she learned that he was dating one of her closest friends. He then remarried 4 months after the Get and refused to pay for his only child's college education. He cleverly, under the guise of leading a more Orthodox life, dismantled his family for his own amusement. Shame on the Denver Orthodox Community who embraced and supported him throughout the civil dissolution and the Get. Shame on the `black hats' who sat in the room during the Get Ceremony laughing and joking with her soon to be ex. Their behavior infuriated me.
The author does come though it in the end but she is way too often at the mercy of thoughtless, egotistical and retarded men who call themselves `Orthodox', as if G-d would tolerate such behavior. It's a good thing she's in the Social Services/Psychology field and is able to see and deal with her own unhealthy behaviors in a clear way. That's how she gets through. At the end, my only hope is that her husband pays dearly for destroying his family and attempting to destroy the author, Elise. What a jerk.
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The Get is the story of a woman's journey through love, divorce,spirituality, empowerment and, finally, self-discovery. It focuses on thereal-life experiences of a modern woman who is pressured to participate in anancient Orthodox ritual that ends her thirty-year marriage. Initially fearful ofparticipating in an ancient ceremony that requires her to stand alone before apanel of emotionally distant Orthodox rabbis, she ultimately comes to believethat the get is truly a profound emotional experience. With the assistance oftwo very special spiritual leaders, she confronts her insecurities and fears,and emerges victorious.
This beautifully written book details a process that has rarely been toldbefore. Readers of all faiths will be fascinated by this personal and spiritualquest from loss to abundance. Readers will be propelled through an experience ofanxiety and intensity until the moment of finality is reached, when a singlepiece of parchment-representing a life together-is dropped into the author'shands and cut.
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