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Don‟t be a “Second Rate” Couple

Yonatan Segal has crossed continents, reached

savage tribes on remote islands and discovered

fading Jewish communities in Europe, until

deciding to return to Israel and find the answers in

their true origin * After marrying Nava, a secular

psychology student, the two became religious, and

began experiencing the routine difficulties of life

as a couple * The two went through a couples‟

workshop, employing the „Imago‟ technique, and decided to host

relationship-reinforcing workshops themselves, in the spirit of Jewish and

Hasidic thought. “Crises happen to everyone” says Segal, “but don‟t give

up on love”.

Ofra Lax

The most commonly mentioned words when talking to Yonatan Segal, a

long-bearded Jew with a black Kippah, were love and relationship. These

pure words are sometimes placed at the wrong side of consciousness, due

to movies and books which have appropriated them, taking them to

indecent regions. Yonatan and his wife, Nava, mean these terms in their

blessed origin. In the couples‟ workshops they give, they are aided by the

Bible, Gemara and Hasidic scripts to reflow the blood back into the veins
of relationships, and to return to people “what they deserve”, as Segal

says, love.
Yonatan didn‟t start out his life as an observant person, but at a certain

place along the way he realized that the many trips and experiences he

had undertaken were not the essence, that the road to happiness is in the

internal dimension, the Jewish one. Today, Segal tries to connect the

people who attend his workshops and courses to their inner dimension, to

their true desires and secret ambitions, while outlining a path for the

couple to fulfill these ambitions together.

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