Respect

Dear Rebbe, I have a story for you.
The following letter was sent to the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson ZT'L

Exactly ten years ago, I met my soulmate. Without going into great detail about our religious backgrounds, I will simply tell you that I was raised a Protestant and later joined Catholicism, and that my partner in life was raised agnostic but was born Jewish. Each of us had undergone great trials in our personal lives and had each sought God in our own way. For two years, we lived together in relative happiness, but after a while we realized that we had to find a religious community that would accept us and in which we could find spiritual fulfillment.

Our search took us to many places of worship in many different communities and different cities. I could not renounce Christianity. Susan could not embrace it. Neither of us were happy. The journey was arduous and painful, we quarreled and we cried.

Finally, Susan insisted that she loved me enough and that she was willing to embrace Christianity and make it her own.