#thisOTDlife

A project of It Gets Besser and getsbesser.com A tumblr to celebrate the shared and common experiences that many of us who go on this journey share. We're not saying it's easy, We're not saying it's everybody, We're saying it's #thisOTDlife. The good, the bad, the awkward, the difficult, and the wonderful. #ItGetsBesser #thisOTDlife #OTDpride Check out our other projects at getsbesser.com and our new video portrait "Tracks" http://getsbesser.com/tracks/ (As per wikipedia: Off the derech (OTD), literally, "off the path", is an expression Orthodox Jews use to describe someone who intentionally stops practicing the tenets of his or her branch of orthodoxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_derech)

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When one day you look at your Tefillin and say:

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When you're trying to explain to someone what the yiddish words "Fargin" and "Imfargin" mean:

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When for a moment you forget the Footsteps Male-to-female ratio:

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When after three years of being frei you walk into the Birthright office asking to be included in a trip:

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When you're asked to pick a random Shabbos to visit on and you happened to pick one when they read two Parshas:

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When someone tells you that even Darwin on his deathbed admitted that evolution isn't true:

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When you post a comment in the Off The Derech Facebook group then step away for a minute:

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When a person you know from Shul walks into Footsteps for the first time:

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Walking in Williamsburg on Saturday and you're the only one not wearing all black:

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When after an exhausting walk through Boro Park's 13 Avenue you arrive at Amnon's Pizza:

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When you went back and read all those Artscroll books/essays with their highfalutin language and vocabulary, you were like:

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When Rachmuna Litzlon accepted your friends request on Facebook:

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When, as a kid, you first found a copy of Shulchan Orach Ohrach Chaim (Hilchos Niddeh) unattended:

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What you say to yourself when you're reading Ami Magazine late Friday night:

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When you first realized that for the rest of the world, Friday isn't naturally half a day:

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When you're in a conversation about a part of pop culture you still haven't caught up on:

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When you go to Shul and try to remember how to shuckel naturally:

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