Yetzia bish'eila is the
Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i term for leaving a religion

Religion

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...

, usually Judaism

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

, to lead a secular life-style, or a life-style adhering significantly less to religion. It is sometimes also called chazara bish'ela ("return with a question"); both terms are attempted reversals of the term chazara bit'shuva

Baal teshuva

Baal teshuva or ba'al teshuvah , sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term referring to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism. Baal teshuva literally means, "repentant", i.e., one who has repented or "returned" to God...

(lit. "return with repentance", the word for repentance being the same as the word for answer), which refers to the opposite act: becoming religious. In Israel, the term for Jews who are non-observant is Hiloni

Hiloni

Hiloni , plural hilonim derived from the Hebrew word hulin, meaning secular or mundane, is the term used in Israel for non-religious Jews.As natives of Israel, hilonim speak Hebrew...

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Many yotz'im bish'ela (pl. noun for those who leave their religion) face ostracism from their original community. Mainstream secular education, social interaction with non-Chareidi people, outside literature, TV and internet are generally prohibited, which means that many are unprepared for life in the "outside world".

Famous people who left the Jewish religion or became less observant include Elisha ben Abuyah

Elisha ben Abuyah

Elisha ben Abuyah was a rabbi and Jewish religious authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 CE. After he adopted a worldview considered heretical by his fellow Tannaim and betrayed his people, the rabbis of the Talmud refrained from relating teachings in his name and referred to him as the...

, Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch de Spinoza and later Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Jewish philosopher. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death...

, Sholom Aleichem

Sholom Aleichem

Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright...

, Yosef Haim Brenner

Yosef Haim Brenner

Yosef Haim Brenner was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.-Biography:Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire...

 , Micha Josef Berdyczewski

Micha Josef Berdyczewski

Micha Josef Berdyczewski , or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar...

, Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.-Biography:...

, Haim Cohn, Ahad Ha'am and Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim , December 21, 1835 = January 2, 1836 , Kapyl — November 25, 1917 = December 8, 1917...

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See also

• Apostasy
  Apostasy
  Apostasy , 'a defection or revolt', from ἀπό, apo, 'away, apart', στάσις, stasis, 'stand, 'standing') is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy is known as an apostate. These terms have a pejorative implication in everyday...
  
  
• Baal teshuva
  Baal teshuva
  Baal teshuva or ba'al teshuvah , sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term referring to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism. Baal teshuva literally means, "repentant", i.e., one who has repented or "returned" to God...
  
  
• Footsteps
  Footsteps (organization)
  Footsteps is an organization based in New York that provides emotional and financial support for people who have left or want to leave the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community...
  
  
• Haskalah
  Haskalah
  Haskalah , the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the 18th–19th centuries that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for better integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history...
  
  
• Religious disaffiliation
  Religious disaffiliation
  Religious disaffiliation means leaving a faith, or a religious group or community. It is in many respects the reverse of religious conversion...
  
  
• hiloni
  Hiloni
  Hiloni , plural hilonim derived from the Hebrew word hulin, meaning secular or mundane, is the term used in Israel for non-religious Jews.As natives of Israel, hilonim speak Hebrew...
  
  

External links

• Hillel Organization in Israel to assist those wishing to leave the chareidi community
• Freedror Organization that helps those wishing to integrate in the wider community.
• Footsteps organization Organization based in New York that gives emotional support and provides education for those who left or want to leave their ultra-orthodox community.

http://www.hillel.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Leaving_Ultra_Orthodox_Judaism.pdf MA Thesis in English on Leaving Haredi (Ultra Orthodox) Judaism