Beatrice Weber was told her only goal in life should be getting married to a respectable Hasidic man and bearing as many children as possible. After being “rebellious” as a young teen, she was sent abroad to a strict religious school where she was meant to learn to behave. As soon as she returned, her parents set her on a path to marry a Torah scholar for a hefty price. She was only 18 years old. She would then not be allowed to use birth control and go on to having 10 children. Suffocated in the lifestyle with little to no help from her husband, she began plotting her escape.

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Chapter Marks

00:00:00 Intro
00:03:35 Beatrice's conservative community
00:05:40 What it was like growing up with extra rules and eating by stricter kosher standards
00:10:16 The consequences for eating the wrong color popscicle
00:14:12 Dressing modestly to the extreme
00:18:03 Interactions with the opposite s*x and how birthday celebrations where considered "immodest"
00:22:15 How isolated was Beatrice's chiIdhood?
00:23:50 How to Holocaust influences modern Jewish life
00:26:15 How the community's set up perpetuates corporal punishment
00:27:59 The Ritual Bath and its problematic nature
00:31:08 Lack of s*x education in the Hasidic community
00:32:22 Beatrice's family moves and changes her education
00:35:29 How the focus on actions prevents original thinking
00:38:03 The preceived importance of lingeage in the Jewish community and how long Beatrice was at seminary school
00:39:32 Beatrice prepares for marriage and how she felt about it
00:41:59 Beatrice's experience with the Hasidic Jewish marriage process
00:47:55 S*x education and new rules after marriage
00:54:19 The rules around s*x and Beatrice's ex-husbands controlling nature
00:56:55 How did Beatrice manage with 10 kids?
00:59:06 Getting birth control in the Hasidic Jewish community
01:01:44 Beatrice rebells and goes to therapy
01:05:45 When did Beatrice start to question?
01:08:58 Beatrice realizes the only option
01:10:46 How Beatrice had to time her escape to create the best outcome for her chiIdren
01:13:24 Linda, listen



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