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At some point Segal decided that he had traveled a lot, and that

his general direction would be home, to Israel. The story is

longer, says Segal, but when they returned to Israel they began

searching for the answers in Judaism. “We were in Kefar

Chabad and in Bney Brak, taking lessons. It was very hard, and

took years…”

The booklet Nava and Yonatan Segal hand out to the people

arriving at their workshops, opens with a quote from a book by

the Lubavitcher Rebbe, whose portrait decorates the living

room. Segal regards the Rebbe as a very special leader, not just

for being a great Torah scholar, but due to his strength, his

wisdom, his love for all men and his attitude of equality towards

women. “Only in recent years was I really exposed to the texts

he had written people, where he addresses the issue of love and

how to attain true intimacy between couples. This Rabbi goes

into the smallest details. People don’t know this, because he

didn’t speak about it in public. But he answered hundreds and

thousands of people who had marital problems. He understood

the modern woman, how a man should treat her and what her

needs are; things which I still don’t hear so much from rabbis

nowadays”.

I ask to hear how the couple ended up dealing couples’

workshops, expecting a heroic tail. But he answers is simple:

“We’ve experienced what every couple experiences.

Acquaintance, friendship, love, getting married followed by a

slow fading of all of the characteristics of the excitement and

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