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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

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