When Hashem wanted to unhinge the atheistic plans of Dor Haflagah, He simply had each person begin to speak a different language. With no way to communicate, unity turned to discord, and the building plans were abandoned. How then, do people who speak different languages marry and succeed in building a home together?
“I was a twenty-five-year-old single before there was a singles crisis” says Penina who hails from Atlanta GA and now lives in Jerusalem. “At that time it was unheard of to be single at twenty-five. People were like ‘My goodness! What’s going to be with you?’ They kept calling with suggestions.”
Still nothing was working out. Then a friend of hers called with a suggestion from the “mothers in the park.”
“She told me about a thirty-five-year-old Brazilian” Penina relates. “I said ‘Thank you very much’ and then did my very best not to go out with him.”
But oddly for the first time in a while no other shidduch suggestion was panning out and meanwhile that pesky friend kept calling about the Brazilian. Finally Penina decided to look into him and one of her rebbeim who knew him encouraged her to give it a try.
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