That's Shmuley on the right. For some reason, he's been all over FR lately. Looks like he's helping MJ keep lean though.
That's Shmuley on the right. For some reason, he's been all over FR lately. Looks like he's helping MJ keep lean though.
All of our good and bad parts are operating within it. What makes a PARTNERSHIP mighty is when BOTH individuals in joint action work out a good number of the bad parts. In an *unfounded* trust relationship, the parties *assume* the individuals will be able to work them out themselves, without help. Well not only does that not work -- so many "bad parts" need the help of others to be made good, but it ALWAYS leads to exploitation, and from that sin, misery, injury, violence.
A marriage is a very special kind of partnership. The kind of things that can be worked out between a man and a woman in marriage, in that special, unique, unsubstitutable partnership can be worked out NOWHERE else. To be a full person you must marry. Man to woman. Woman to Man.
Now if either party *assumes* trust, that actually keeps the things from being worked out that need to be worked out.
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All that said, I can now speak to that relationship Boteach has with the mid-fortieish father of young'uns, Mr. Micheal Jackson. Jackson's cry has been to "Trust me!", yet when every common sense of his actions says they are unwise, dangerous, and puts him and his charges in compromising positions better avoided!
It is, to a reasonable view of Boteach's actions and words -- hypocrisy on Boteach's part, yet that he would address how he balances the two. Boteach's support for a man who poffers a very foolish and unsubstanstiated "Trust me!" versus Rabbi Boteach's wisdom that "Trust destroys a marriage!"
No...he's not an MJ supporter anymore. He tried to get Jackson psychiatric help a few years back, but Jackson refused.