A religious girl’s heartbreaking situation was brought to light this month after she took the courageous decision to do the most vulnerable thing she could think of – to expose her story to the public.
Shulamit is described by her friends as kind-hearted and well-liked, and genuinely happy to help anyone in need… but she didn’t start out this way. Shulamit had a difficult childhood that lacked stability. Her father was barely around and her parents eventually separated. Shulamit never had a childhood home; the family moved around from rental to rental, never setting down roots in the community.
Finally, Shulamit found a home in a dormitory school for girls in Jerusalem. For the first time in her life she had loving adults as role models, and slowly she was able to heal from her difficult past.
Today, Shulamit is looking forward to having her own home and creating the stable, loving atmosphere that she never experienced as a child. Shulamit’s wedding is tomorrow. Although it should be the happiest time in her life, Shulamit admits that her feelings have been streaked with moments of paralyzing fear: The entire burden of planning her wedding falls entirely to Shulamit.
“Until the last minute I won’t be sure if my wedding will happen at all,” she says. The plucky young woman has chosen to go public with her story to see if strangers’ kindness can help her get married and build the loving home she has always dreamed of.
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