Logician, I’m all in favor and fully support personal self sacrifice in the name of an ideal. It’s one of the basic components of a religious life. But your suggested comparison of those people unable to easily meet eligible spouses in the shidduch system with an agunah is misplaced to say the very least. The Talmud does not refer to a shidduch system. Rather it talks about the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur afternoon. The meeting rituals there are very different than the current shidduch system. Given the lack of any primary textual support for the current system, I label it arbitrary. But it is the Torah, the Talmud and theit application that engenders the pathetic agunah situation. The two are hardly comparable on any plain.
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