Reply To: The Age Gap and the Musical Chairs of Shidduchim👴👶🏻🎶💺💺

midwesterner: Nothing you said demonstrates the gedolim’s statements supporting the existence and effects of the age gap on shidduchim is any less the case, even assuming your claims and interpretations thereof of their sons yeshiva structuring is accurate. At best, all it might demonstrate is that they don’t agree that the boys structuring of yeshiva years should be modified — despite their having acknowledged the ill effects of the age gap on yiddishe girls.

The same set of many Gedolim that publicly decried the age gap and called for reducing the age gap between newlyweds, did not call for changing the yeshiva system for boys. The only universal remedy the Gedolim publicly supported was to initiate change that would encourage closer in age shidduchim.