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Studies recorded widely-varied and complex sets of reasons that people give for leaving Othodox Judaism.

Etymology
Within Jewish verbiage, it has been commonplace to refer to those who relax themselves of religious practice as 'deviators', 'strayers', with notable records of their usage going back to the Jewish medivial age, and according to some, even within the Hebrew bible. In the Hebrew bible, the term sorer is applied to the "rebellious and wayward son" (deutreonomy) and the "wayward Israelite people" (Isiaih), and according to Rashi and Abarbanel, sorer translates to "deviated/strayed from The Path [of religious morals or practice]".

Orthodox Jewish speakers of Yiddish, (the language predominantly used by Jews until WWII and still largely spoken by ultra-orthodox Jews today), would, and still do, describe these people as being "arop fun derech", "arop fun veg" (off The Path), and opgeforen (deviated).

"Off the derech" (He:דרך, meaning: path), the more recent englicized version of the Yiddish phrase, emerged from within the Yeshivish Haredi sect, and has since been reclaimed by OTD individuals and groups to self describe.

Ki Teitzei§the wayward son