Ready or Not? 

Adina came home from seminary in June. Three girls from her circle are already married (not counting Shaindy, who broke her engagement). She’s begging her mother to meet shadchanim.

Tatty shrugs: What’s the rush? Let her find her bearings and put some money in the bank for a few months. She’s just a kid. She spends more time getting iced coffee with her friends than considering her future. How will she ever deal with work and school and housework? Not to mention babies, im yirtzeh Hashem…

Rikki’s gone out seven times with Moshe, and she likes what she sees… more or less. She’s just not feeling it. Her sister Chavi and her best friends Esti and Tova each knew that their husband was The One by date four or five…

The shadchan is calling almost hourly, and Moshe’s siblings want to know if they should start finding babysitting arrangements for the l’chayim. But Rikki just isn’t ready.