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I believe that would be "baal teshuva", according to wikipedia "a person who has repented", a term for a newly observant Orthodox Jew-- someone who grew up not observant and has become observant later in life. The woman mentioned it at the beginning of the episode, IIRC...
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Also, there's no way they would have called the husband Yonatan. It would have been Yonasan. And the way the matchmaker pronounced Yonatan (like Jonathan, but with the J as a Y and the th as a t: "YAH-nuh-tin") showed a lack of research. It's "YO-nuh-tahn." YO-nu-sahn, rather.
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Quite a good episode. Not being orthodox, I can't exactly say how accurate it was, but I recognized a few things from my time at an orthodox synagogue. Nostalgic... not that I would ever want to go to one again (No offense, but I was never able to understand what anyone was saying. Now does that bring me closer to God?)
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What I liked about it - and I say this as an apatheist - was that while House ridiculed the religion and the religious, the source of the medical ailment was not a weakness or mental problem on her part. I was half expecting that, for the writers to prove House "right" about the motivations and strength of the religious.
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quote:Originally posted by Chris Bridges: What I liked about it - and I say this as an apatheist - was that while House ridiculed the religion and the religious, the source of the medical ailment was not a weakness or mental problem on her part. I was half expecting that, for the writers to prove House "right" about the motivations and strength of the religious.
Definitely. That (almost) redeemed the episode for me.
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