Let's Talk Divorce: What No One is Saying - 2 Single Mom's Speak Up
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
In many frum communities, divorced women often navigate a world filled with quiet challenges- social stigma, financial strain, and the delicate balance of raising children alone while staying connected to community life. This episode opens a rare and honest window with Adina & Shira into their experiences. It explores how they rebuild, find strength, and seek belonging in a world that often misunderstands them. Through real stories and heartfelt reflections, we hear their voices - sometimes raw, always resilient. It's a conversation that brings compassion, nuance, and much-needed visibility.
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| 0:00.0 | So I came back and they were like, why are you back? |
| 0:03.1 | And I was like, oh, it just didn't work out. |
| 0:06.6 | He's going to look for a job here. |
| 0:08.6 | And we're going to like, you know, figure it out. |
| 0:10.7 | And it took me months of time until I was able to tell people, yeah, he's going to come back, |
| 0:15.7 | but we're not going to be married anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | It took a lot. |
| 0:19.0 | And the courage that I got was meeting other people |
| 0:22.0 | in my situation. I had to like seek them out through organizations, support groups or people |
| 0:27.0 | that were going through that. And you might say to yourself, that's such a silly thing. You were |
| 0:30.1 | just getting divorced. But when a person is going through it, it feels like their world is crashing |
| 0:35.6 | down. That's what it feels like. Your world is ending. |
| 0:38.4 | What is happening now? |
| 0:39.9 | I mean, we're just like everybody else. |
| 0:41.8 | I know I remember once I was in the market and someone's like, Edna, I just saw like you |
| 0:44.8 | wrote an article and you were talking about how you're divorced. |
| 0:46.6 | You don't look divorced. |
| 0:48.1 | And I was like, I don't know what divorced people look like. |
| 0:51.6 | Treat us like everybody else. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm like everybody else. I'm like, I'm like everybody else. Maybe I'm a |
| 0:55.5 | little more superpowered. What's it actually like to get divorced as a from Orthodox woman? |
| 1:00.8 | In this honest, eye-opening episode, we sit down with two women, Shira from West Hamset and |
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