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My Spiritual Trip To Wendy's

My Spiritual Trip To Wendy's

How a choice to eat non-kosher food for the first time in 13 years shaped my journey away from Orthodox Judaism.

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Feb 10, 2021
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I didn’t think it would happen at Wendy’s.

In truth, I wasn’t sure it would ever happen again.  But certainly not at a Wendy’s drive through.

It had been months of flirting with losing religion, and I had finally started to take the baby steps that lead to the full on flight from the beliefs I had turned my life inside out for 13 years earlier.

Those 13 ye…

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