Download Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood AudioBook Free
Leah Vincent was born in to the Yeshivish community, a fundamentalist sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. As the little girl of an important rabbi, Leah and her ten siblings were increased to worship two things: God and the men who ruled their world. But the tradition-bound future Leah envisioned for herself was trim short when, at sixteen, she was caught exchanging words with a male friend, a violation of religious law that forbids contact between members of the contrary making love. Leah's parents were unforgiving. Frightened, partly, that her action would have an impact on the marriage leads of their other children, they put her over a plane and take off ties. Cast out in NEW YORK, without a father or man tethering her to the Orthodox community, Leah was unprepared to understand the freedoms of secular life. She put in the next couple of years using her sexuality as a way of appealing to the male authorization she had been conditioned to search out as a child, while becoming more and more unfaithful to the religious dogma of her history. Fast-paced, mesmerizing, and brutally honest, Cut Me Loose tells the story of one woman's harrowing battle to specify herself as an individual. Through Leah's eye, we confront not only the oppressive world of religious fundamentalism, but also the broader conditions that face even the most secular young women as they grapple with sexuality and individuality.
