Reply To: Defining “The Shidduch Crisis”

No, but can you show me a precise citation in Shulchan Aruch, or is it just something you know through common sense?

Do you advocate driving while intoxicated? Have you seen studies on it? Do you have proof? Do you have precise numbers showing how dangerous it is? Or are certain things so blatantly obvious that they don’t need precise numbers?

Think about it.

Whether or not there are precise numbers doesn’t change the blatantly obvious fact that there are a lot more single girls then boys. This is a tragedy of huge proportions, which some gedolim are viewing as a massive agunah issue, yet you want to do nothing about it until we have precise numbers?

The solutions you think are “harmful” are not at all clearly so. There is an excellent case to be made that even if there were no shidduch catastrophe, these changes would still be very positive.

You agree that certain things which are obvious without precise scientific studies,cyet you keep in insisting on proof, something which you can’t provide for your side of the argument.

You know some things don’t require “proof”, but for some reason, on the topic of solutions to the shidduch crisis, you’ve mixed up what does and what doesn’t.

At the expense of agunos.