{"id":99222,"date":"2022-11-20T06:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99222"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:57:30","slug":"taking-the-time-to-save-a-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/taking-the-time-to-save-a-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Time to Save a Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taking the Time to Save a Marriage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One winter Friday, when the day is short and the work is great, a woman called me up for advice. I preempted her by stating that there was hardly any time before the onset of Shabbat. I could not afford to hear her out patiently and offer her sound advice. If she could wait until after Shabbat to call back, I assured her that I would give her all the time in the world. But she did not let up and insisted on telling me her story immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy <em>shalom bayit<\/em> is gone. My husband left me ages ago. One day, I suddenly remembered a man I had been engaged to in the past. He had been a good man, and successful. But we broke our engagement for various reasons, each going to build his future home with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince my husband and I do not live peacefully together, and I found out that this man also has marital problems, we decided to meet again. All I want now is the Rav\u2019s opinion in the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understood that she and her previous fianc\u00e9 were standing at the cliff of the abyss of sin. I began trembling at the thought of what they were about to do. In order to save them from sinning so terribly, I immediately forsook all my obligations for Shabbat. In spite of the late hour, I spoke with the woman, explaining the severity of the sin she was about to commit.<\/p>\n<p>I spent an inordinate amount of time with her on the phone. I also made contact with her husband and spoke with him for a long while, bent on restoring peace to their marriage. <em>Baruch Hashem<\/em>, after much exertion, they began living together peacefully again. Their marriage recovered its former luster.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing this urgent matter, I shuddered to think of what would have happened had I not taken the call. The episode would have spiraled to uncontrollable proportions. Two Jewish families would have been destroyed on account of serious Torah prohibitions, <em>rachmana litzlan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hashem arranged that I should listen to the woman\u2019s tale in spite of the late hour. For this deed, I merited bringing peace and blessing back between them. How important it is not to postpone a good deed! Later might prove to be too late<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the Time to Save a Marriage One winter Friday, when the day is short and the work is great, a woman called me up for advice. I preempted her by stating that there was hardly any time before the onset of Shabbat. I could not afford to hear her out patiently and offer her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marital-harmony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}