As an aside Mrs. Ibenboim goes on to tell the story about she and her husband married with absolutely no prior contact between them outside of their initial 20 minute meeting before they got engaged.
Somehow this method of dating succeeds. Ger and other types of Chasidim do not have any more incidence of divorce that does general society. And if I had to guess, I’d say they have less. Probably a lot less. And yet I cannot imagine anyone getting married to someone that they have only met for a few minutes. I know that they have commonalities that unite them even before they met. But that still doesn’t explain how it’s possible for them to have such relatively successful marriages. I can’t imagine marrying someone I don’t know!
I wonder if this trend will continue in the age of the internet? I’m not sure that the control that Chasidic Rebbes have over use of it will be able to survive it’s increasingly ubiquitous presence in all segments of Orthodoxy.
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