Pesach: Freedom Is A Responsibility

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Pesach: Freedom Is A Responsibility – Rabbi Moishe Lichtenstein’s new installment of Water-Cooler Questions. To send in a question of your own please email watercooler@ou.org.

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  • Natalie

    I believe Mr. Ostrov is missing a very important piece of the puzzle.
    I have numerous friends and relatives with daughters in their twenties
    who are under tremendous pressure to get married but are constantly
    thwarted from meeting people by the newest rules set by many Rabbis.
    They can’t sit together in college cafeterias; are prohibited from mixing
    at a kiddush after shul; are not allowed to exchange phone numbers
    at a YU “mixer”-they must always go through one of the organizers
    and often these people do not follow through. You must have a “personal profile”
    and it has to be distributed via Shadchanin.
    I grew up in the typical religious mileu but we met with boys casually-
    in mixers; at school; at weddings.
    Now these poor kids are really suffering.
    There must be a solution to the problems.
    I personally believe that the Rabbis can and should relieve the situation.
    What do you think should be done?
    Thank you, Natalie