“The conclusions you drew long ago in childhood are now part of the architecture of your brain. They can certainly be dismantled, but only by you”
I nodded along after reading a letter in your inbox regarding paying shadchanim for their effort even if the shidduch doesn’t work out. My daughter was in shidduchim for two and a half years. Then someone made me aware of the importance of compensating her shadchanim, which I promptly did.
A month later, she met her zivug!
Coincidence?
I think not.
B.T.
In response to the well-written article Presenting Issue by Bassi Friedman, I’d like to present (pun intended) the following subject: gifts for chassan and kallah during the engagement period. When I got engaged some 50-plus years ago, I got a siddur from my chassan and was very happy. Today the gifts exchange is going overboard. Not only a very expensive diamond ring, but a pearl necklace, earrings, and now a new meshugas, an expensive designer bag. When will this stop? I know parents who went into heavy debt because of these “obligatory” presents.
Oh. I forgot the Tehillim.
The gifts for the chassan is the subject of another letter.
An Aunt in Michigan
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