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Avira, the Shach writes on that Shulchan Aruch that if the husband is not makpid, then the wife’s obligation of Kibud Av V’Eim still stands.

Libbi: Technically (and I’m not advocating this) from a purely mathematical perspective, if all girls universally agreed they wouldn’t date/get married before age 23, that would also effectively solve the crisis.

Is the risk increase if the FIRST pregnancy is at or over age 35 or is the increased risk if ANY pregnancy occurs over age 35?

Y21: It’s sad that you feel that the Torah and Halacha, such as the Halacha I referenced above, is bigoted. The heterodox movements say the same.

Yehudis; Rambam (among many Torah sources) says that a wife should have the same fear of following her husband’s instructions as she would for a king. Do you oppose this obligation or consider it outdated or objectionable?

“Especially nlwas6, as AAQ wrote – the pitfalls of batalah mayviah lidei znus/shigaon are worse than the chisaron of being “out” a lot.”

One of the primary reasons halacha mandates women not be out of the home a lot, is to reduce znus.

ymr: Did you really completely misconstrue and utterly misinterpret akuperma’s comment or did you purposelessly misstate it to suit your anti-frum agenda?

Does anyone know whether in prewar Europe there was a general age gap? I would tend to assume that both the Choson and Wallah were generally teenagers about the same age.

The entire corpus of halachic Seforim *explicitly* define Kol Kevuda Bas Melech Penima as meaning that a woman’s place is at home and that she shouldn’t leave it too much. Shulchan Aruch and Rambam, the foundations of Psak, say so. This isn’t in dispute.

Are R: You seem to be subtly making some presumptions. A) How can this even be accurately determined? B) Is it a given that in the Jewish community more boys are born? C) Perhaps the Jewish death rate is no different between the genders (the male non-Jewish world suffers from drug overdoses and other ailments rare in the Jewish world) D) Perhaps there are more “unmarriageable” girls than boys? E) Perhaps the greater OTD rare is by girls? F) Perhaps more male BTs than females? G) Boys have a halachic obligation to marry whereas girls do not.

Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt’l said not long before his petira, when he saw the real-world problems with invalid gittin (me’usa), that Klal Yisroel may come to a point where a central Yichus Registry will be necessary to be established.

Avira, what kind of Shidduch Crisis do the Chasidim have? The age gap issue isn’t much of a thing by the Chasidim.

Are R: Who is LIBBY?

If what you’re saying is accurate (never married single girls marrying divorced guys, etc), the attention brought by the age gap public relations campaign seems to have made the disadvantage girls have in shidduchim even greater.

Can you share what this “Torah B’tahara” initiative is all about and who it is targeting?