"What can I tell you about Fran? Well, she's married to a baal teshuva and she lives in Jerusalem and she has four kids..." (Glinert)

"Now that he's a baal teshuva, it's only a matter of time before he goes to study in a yeshivah in Israel." (JPS)

"Gabby falls into the common baal teshuvah pattern of wanting to take on all obligations at once, with the strictest interpretations feeling most authentic."
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"Rebecca is a bal tshuvah; she started keeping kosher and Shabbos when she was 17."