Shterny Steinmetz: How My Divorce Encouraged Me to Fix The System for Kids
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Shterny Steinmetz, after experiencing a challenging divorce, has become a voice for understanding the unique challenges that divorce presents in observant Jewish homes. Now part of a blended family herself, she speaks passionately about the emotional, social, and spiritual impacts of divorce on children and families, advocating for greater awareness and support within the community. Shterny's journey highlights the importance of providing stability and a sense of belonging for children facing these changes. Through her work, she emphasizes fostering resilience, compassion, and unity for those affected by family breakdowns. Inspired by her own experiences, she founded "My Extended Family," an organization dedicated to supporting children from single-parent and divorced homes in the Orthodox Jewish community.
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| 0:00.0 | Every girl from the time they're three years old dreams of wearing that white gown and getting married and living happily ever after. |
| 0:06.8 | Getting divorce was never something I ever thought about. I don't even think I was exposed to it much like I really had no concept. But when it happened, yes, it turned my world upside down. It was painful. It was difficult. A lot of struggles being a divorced woman and being a single mom, |
| 0:26.8 | especially in the firm world where so much of our Yiddush kite surrounds like family lifestyle. So that gets turned upside down like do you |
| 0:36.4 | Daven in the same shul as your ex like things like that that people don't even |
| 0:40.3 | think about it literally turns your entire world upside down who makes |
| 0:43.4 | kiddish out this night. Getting divorce is never simple it's even more complicated |
| 0:47.3 | in the Orthodox world for many reasons. Meet Stearney Stymets who had a |
| 0:50.9 | Chabad upbringing and was a newly divorced mother of three trying to weave her life together. |
| 0:56.0 | She realized that there's a key component missing for children of divorce couples and decided |
| 1:00.0 | to create the answer for them. |
| 1:01.7 | You'll hear about it, about her mixed family now, and of course, |
| 1:05.4 | one of the most popular YouTube videos in the world and her Shabas table with Peter |
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| 1:29.4 | Shim and David Ben Yaku Schlema and Miriam Sarabas Yaku Mosha. |
| 1:33.4 | Here we go. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Yaku Langer and you're listening to Inspiration for the nation. |
| 1:40.0 | I grew up in California, my parents are Chilchilhem in Santa Monica, California, the oldest of nine children. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, grew up regular Chabad, Shilah's daughter lifestyle and then went off I got married. My marriage lasted about five years. |
| 1:59.7 | I was quickly divorced after five years with three children under the age of five and that's how my journey kind of began. |
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