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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know how when you sign up for online dating, you answer a bunch of questions for your profile, |
0:09.3 | and for the question about religion, one of the options is spiritual but not religious? |
0:14.2 | That's the box I check. |
0:18.0 | I was raised Catholic. I raised my kids Catholic. |
0:25.2 | But I fell away from the church even before I committed the sin of divorce. |
0:30.5 | Since then, I've been curious about religion's role in romantic relationships. |
0:34.6 | And that brings me to a conversation I had with Lewis. |
0:39.7 | You met him in season three on the hashtag love episode. What you didn't hear then was how Lewis prepared from a religious point of view to start dating again. |
0:46.6 | I'd gotten divorced in November, and then I had gotten the get, which is the Jewish divorce in December. |
0:55.2 | So you got a legal divorce and then there's a Jewish divorce? |
0:57.7 | So there's a legal divorce and then there is a Jewish divorce if you want to get married again in the Jewish religion. |
1:05.1 | And so you're legally divorced, but what you do is you go in front of a, I think it's called a bait dean. |
1:11.7 | It's almost like a court of three rabbis and, you know, the Orthodox Hasidic rabbis and everything. |
1:18.6 | And it's called a get, like G-E-T, get. |
1:22.3 | And like a legal divorce, there's not a whole lot of paperwork to it. |
1:26.1 | It's more ceremonial. |
1:27.2 | So the man is giving the woman this thing called a get. And it's really more for the woman so she can get married in the Jewish religion again. Should she choose? Yeah. And I was a lot more religious than my wife, and she really did it for me, |
1:46.0 | so we could be not only legally divorced, but Jewishly divorced. So that happened in December. |
1:52.4 | And right away... Can I ask you one more question? Oh, go ahead. Oh, please. No, I love it. |
1:55.3 | I was going to say, this is fast. I, this is really interesting. So I know I was raised as a Catholic, |
2:00.7 | and we have something called |
2:02.2 | annulments, which I'm just telling you, I, come on, we're pretending it was a, you know, a huge |
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