“Your daughters will thank you for allowing them to have this much-needed time without the pressure to start shidduchim”
As a group of seminary girls, we’d like to give a big thank you to Mishpacha for so beautifully presenting different angles of the multifaceted, weighty issue that’s been pressing on our minds in such a palpable way.
We were discussing this over Pesach, and while we recognize the importance and benefit of this initiative, as well as the necessity of following the psak of the gedolim, some of us raised some concerns. One girl raised the theoretical scenario of turning down a shidduch suggestion with a top boy, only to see him be snatched away by a girl just a year older.
Continuing our talk, we then recalled the vatranus of our matriarch, Rochel Imenu, who was willing to give up her husband, even facing the seeming fate of marrying a rasha, to save her sister from hurt. We too, we resolved, can rise to the occasion and draw on the vatranus in our DNA to save our sisters from pain.
And maybe emulating Rochel Imenu will be the zechus we need to finally bring Mashiach.
Create a free account to keep reading.
