Senior rabbis in the Religious Zionist community, organized under the association of “Torat HaAretz HaTova,” published an official letter this week calling for urgent action regarding the phenomenon of late marriage, according to an Arutz Sheva report.
According to them, young men and women should receive significant emotional, halachic, and practical guidance already in their formative years within religious and educational training frameworks.
The rabbis emphasize that establishing families is a supreme value in the Jewish people, and they call to encourage and empower anyone who can contribute to advancing matchmaking efforts. The letter is directed to heads of yeshivot, seminaries, and pre-military academies, recommending that they introduce content on relationship education and personal guidance at early stages.
The rabbis also propose appointing matchmakers within educational institutions who will devote time and resources to accompany the young men and women. At the same time, they call on graduates of these systems to approach matchmakers or professional counselors for personal guidance in building healthy relationships.
In addition, the rabbis note that matchmakers who successfully help create a match should be given respectable compensation, stressing that this is a profession requiring experience and sensitivity.
In the final part of the letter, the rabbis state that young people should be encouraged to marry as early as possible: “Ideally, one should marry even before combat military service and before beginning academic studies.”
According to them, encouraging early marriage may significantly reduce the scope of late singleness within the Religious Zionist community.
They keep the boys and girls separate, even suspending and expelling from school the boys who walk on the girl's side of the street (and vice versa).
ReplyDeleteAnd now they are whining about a "Shidduch crisis."
So Dati Leumi facilitated a system that encouraged getting married late & then almost 80 years since the Medina’s founding they’re like hey, tze arbet nisht! Hmmmm
ReplyDelete2:52 Liar!
Delete" Dati Leumi facilitated a system that encouraged getting married late ?"
When and where did Dati Leumi "facilitate a system that encouraged getting married late" ???
You are confusing Dati Leumi with Fakewood, it was Fakewood that facilitated a system of freezers, encouraging getting married late!
Dati Leumi rabbanim and educators have always encoureaged getting married young.
ReplyDeleteHow many non-Charedi “younglings” got married late because they first wanted to get Tzahal & university out of the way?
ReplyDeleteThe Late Idiot 6:57
DeleteThe short answer is "2"