Does not believing in the shidduch crisis make you a koifer?

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  • #609405
    WIY
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    Its taken for granted in Yidrishkiet that part of the religion today is the shidduch crisis. So if you don’t believe in it are you a koifer?

    #954270
    Mammele
    Participant

    If you’re an unmarried guy I’d say it comes with the territory.,.

    #954271
    mop
    Member

    no, just a fool.

    #954272
    squeak
    Participant

    There are problems in the shidduch scene, I don’t think anyone pretends otherwise. Maybe some would hesitate to call it a crisis, but that is semantics. Did you mean to ask whether its kefirah to deny the popular explanations as to the cause? I’d have to pull a Wolf if you did.

    #954273
    akuperma
    Participant

    NO, it means you believe in statistics.

    The only person who had a serious problem finding a shiduch was Adam Ha-Rishon, and Ha-Shem had to intervene to resolve the matter.

    Everyone has a shiduch crisis, until they get married. No exception. No hiddush.

    #954274
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    WIY, what exactly is it that you don’t believe?

    #954275
    yytz
    Participant

    What percentage of women or men need to be unmarried at what age for there to be a crisis? What do you think the current percentages are?

    Crisis or no crisis, the rate of marriage is much higher in the Orthodox world than it is in the general Jewish or non-Jewish US population.

    #954276
    walton157
    Member

    What’s a koifer? Please, if hebrew/yiddish words are used, please explain them. thanks.

    #954277
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    What’s a koifer

    Literally, one who denies. It is usually used to denote one who denies an essential element of Jewish belief.

    Apparently, WIY feels that those who don’t believe in the age gap/ population growth leading to a disparity in the number of eligible males and females are somehow being made to feel as if they are are heretics.

    #954278
    Toi
    Participant

    speaking of heretics, i just finished reading the exchange between R shamshon raphoel hirsh and R bamburger ztls. very kiday to read.

    #954279
    ShalomToYou
    Member

    It’s exactly the opposite. If you believe in it, you are a koifer.

    Hashem runs the world. There is no crisis. Or solutions. Everyone has their time. We should try to help others in any way we can, including redding Shiduchim. That’s all.

    NASI has bamboozled klal Yisroel for no good reason and we have had enough.

    And I am an older single in Shiduchim.

    #954280
    WIY
    Member

    Toi

    Where do I find this?

    #954281
    squeak
    Participant

    I’ll assume you don’t understand what you read, or I’m sure you would not dare use the word heretics as a segue to those giants.

    #954282
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    ShalomToYou, really? A koifer for believing it? You’ve just called a lot of big people koifrim (also me).

    Can you please show me where it says that age gap + population growth ? gender imbalance is one of the ikrei emunah?

    WIY, you said you’re a koifer. Please explain.

    #954283
    WIY
    Member

    DY

    This thread is chatzi serious. Im not feeling like going into it but I dont believe there is any crisis whatsoever. Or at least the who age gap thing is unproven and is just a theory. Nobody really knows how many single people there are out there of either gender. I think there are a lot of people who are very picky and I think the mothers of many of these “crisis” girls are the reason they are single. Of course there are also the girls who dont think guys have eyes and care about physical appearance and all that. There are valid reasons why people are single. Of course theres also the obvious that everyone ignores which is that Hashem runs the world and He decides when its time for you to get married and He knows when is the proper time. Its a whole bunch of hype and hysteria probably started by some rich people who couldnt marry off their spoiled brats by 20.

    #954284
    147
    Participant

    Does not believing in the shidduch crisis make you a koifer?

    Absolutely Not.

    #954285
    yytz
    Participant

    Squeak, Toi’s “segue” makes sense, because R’ Hirsch and R’ Bamberger were debating how to relate to the non-Orthodox (ie, whether to officially/legally separate from them under German law). I assume he’s not suggesting R’ Bamberger was a kofer for opposing R’ Hirsch’s view that the Orthodox community should separate or secede or whatever.

    #954286
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    WIY, all the talk about overbearing mothers, obsession with appearances, etc., doesn’t change the “overwhelming anecdotal evidence” that there’s an imbalance. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, even without observing an imbalance, if you at least acknowledge a typical several year gap between the age if the chassanim and kanllahs, and large average family size, an imbalance is almost inevitable. This is not likely your crisis, but it’s an important issue for the non – chassidic community as a whole.

    #954287
    writersoul
    Participant

    The shidduch crisis isn’t part of the Jewish religion. We have 613 mitzvos, and one of them is NOT “thou shalt freak out over the age gap.” That would seem to be even more bal tosif than the notion of needing to cover your face in front of men at your wedding.

    /stupidreferencetodifferentthread

    In short, duh no you’re not a kofer. You become a kofer, IMHO, when you believe so much in the shidduch crisis that you lose any hope of finding a shidduch and forget that it’s actually in the hands of Someone higher than statistics.

    #954288
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    /stupidreferencetodifferentthread

    🙂

    You become a kofer, IMHO, when you believe so much in the shidduch crisis that you lose any hope of finding a shidduch and forget that it’s actually in the hands of Someone higher than statistics.

    Yes, I think that would violate #1.

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