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T zadik Lev and Tikvah Womack were married three
times. The first wedding was Christian, the second
Conservative Jewish, and most recently, over two years
ago, they were once again married as Orthodox Jews.
The Womacks live in Baltimore and daven at Ner
Tamid. Tzadik Lev, a lawyer, is an associate at
Snider & Associates, LLC, in Baltimore. Tikvah is
raising their toddler and also works full-time as a
school-based therapist at a Baltimore charter school. The
story of the Womacks’ journey to Yiddishkeit is one of ide-
alism and truth-seeking, reflecting that of their spiritual
forebear, the biblical Rus.
Their Roads Converge
Ironically, the Womacks attended the same Baltimore mid-
dle school and ended up in the same college – Gettysburg
College in Pennsylvania – but they didn’t date until after
college. They did find out, while in college, that their
fathers had been friends.
“We joke that our fathers made the shidduch,” says
Tikvah. “They kept telling us that we should see how one
another was doing. Tzadik reached out to me one day, and
this time I actually followed through. Four months later, we
were engaged, and a year-and-a-half later we were mar-
ried.”
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T zadik Lev and Tikvah Womack were married three
times. The first wedding was Christian, the second
Conservative Jewish, and most recently, over two years
ago, they were once again married as Orthodox Jews.
The Womacks live in Baltimore and daven at Ner
Tamid. Tzadik Lev, a lawyer, is an associate at
Snider & Associates, LLC, in Baltimore. Tikvah is
raising their toddler and also works full-time as a
school-based therapist at a Baltimore charter school. The
story of the Womacks’ journey to Yiddishkeit is one of ide-
alism and truth-seeking, reflecting that of their spiritual
forebear, the biblical Rus.
Their Roads Converge
Ironically, the Womacks attended the same Baltimore mid-
dle school and ended up in the same college – Gettysburg
College in Pennsylvania – but they didn’t date until after
college. They did find out, while in college, that their
fathers had been friends.
“We joke that our fathers made the shidduch,” says
Tikvah. “They kept telling us that we should see how one
another was doing. Tzadik reached out to me one day, and
this time I actually followed through. Four months later, we
were engaged, and a year-and-a-half later we were mar-
ried.”
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