Stories Of Hope With Tzipora Grodko
Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 14 segments
Rachel spent years believing that meeting the right person would feel like a movie, complete with instant certainty and butterflies. But after decades of dating, she realized that butterflies were…
I do wanna get married, so in my head I'm thinking six months, which turns into 20 years.
So after he got back to Israel, I broke up with him.
[laughs]
I mean, that experience was way more difficult than after the divorce.
Like, that was easy, Baruch Hashem.
It's like you get a taste of, uh, Olam Haba, and then whoosh.
What if I'm gonna miss my person? You know, was that ever-
... a fear of yours?
Very strongly convinced that Rochel was the one.
It was difficult.
I'd lie awake a lot in bed.
I'd sometimes I'd wonder, would I turn out like some people that I know that got very old alone and never got married.
He came to pick me up.
Found myself laughing.
He asked questions.
It was just like a conversation that flowed.
Still, like, the time of war, by the way.
And there's so much going on.
In the car, th- the sirens went off in the Golan.
So his son called him.
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I do wanna get married, so in my head I'm thinking six months, which turns into 20 years.
So after he got back to Israel, I broke up with him.
[laughs]
I mean, that experience was way more difficult than after the divorce.
Like, that was easy, Baruch Hashem.
It's like you get a taste of, uh, Olam Haba, and then whoosh.
What if I'm gonna miss my person? You know, was that ever-
... a fear of yours?
Very strongly convinced that Rochel was the one.
It was difficult.
I'd lie awake a lot in bed.
I'd sometimes I'd wonder, would I turn out like some people that I know that got very old alone and never got married.
He came to pick me up.
Found myself laughing.
He asked questions.
It was just like a conversation that flowed.
Still, like, the time of war, by the way.
And there's so much going on.
In the car, th- the sirens went off in the Golan.
So his son called him.