Emes Ve-Emunah: Marriage Satisfaction Survey

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Marriage Satisfaction Survey

How satisfied are you in your marriage? The OU wants to know. They are conducting an online survey. Here is how it was described to me:

The survey aims to identify issues within Jewish Orthodox Marriages so that they may create programming and infrastructure to address them. The other organization is called Aleinu Family Resource Center, a program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, and the Rabbinical Council of California.

Questions on the survey are pretty straight forward and what you would expect on a survey of this kind, the kicker being “would you marry the same person all over again”, or something to that extent. Expectations are unknown, which is one of the reasons for the survey and we hope to get a sample size in the thousands.

I took it and it is really quite painless. I have been asked to help publicize it and am happy to do so. Here is the link to the survey.

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My outlook on Judaism is based mostly on the teachings of my primary Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik from whom I received my rabbinic ordination. It is also based on a search for spiritual truth. Among the various sources that put me on the right path, two great philosophic works stand out: “Halakhic Man” and “Lonely Man of Faith” authored by the pre-eminent Jewish philosopher and theologian, Rabbi, Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Of great significance is Rabbi, Dr. Norman Lamm's conceptualization and models of Torah U’Mada and Dr. Eliezer Berkovits who introduced me to the world of philosophic thought. Among my early influences were two pioneers of American Elementary Torah Chinuch, Rabbis Shmuel Kaufman and Yaakov Levi. The Yeshivos I attended were Yeshivas Telshe for early high school and more significantly, the Hebrew Theological College where for a period of ten years, my Rebbeim included such great Rabbinic figures as Rabbis Mordechai Rogov, Shmaryahu Meltzer, Yaakov Perlow, Herzl Kaplan, and Selig Starr. I also attended Roosevelt University where I received my Bachelor's Degree - majoring in Psychology.