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Title: Buying this book was a huge mistake...
Review: I loved Naomi Ragen's first two books - her characters were living people with what seemed to me real dilemas they had to deal witn within the boundries of their personal beliefs.But Bat Sheva HaLevi just doesn't seem right - from the start. At first she is portrayed as this ultra orthodox girl, but when she gets married she doesn't realize that she has to COMPLETELY cover her hair and wear skirts? Even I, as an unorthodox Jew know that much.... I don't think that a truely orthodox girl would put herself in certain situations the way Bat Sheva did - like going to an unkosher restaurant. And even though there is a little sympathy for her husband at first, after that he is portrayed as a "monster", even though he had to face a wife that had values so different than he was raised to expect, and he just didn't know how to deal with her, and get her to understand the values he believed in. Doesn't he deserve some understanding for that?
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