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A discussion on the challenges of matchmaking and the importance of character over pedigree.
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with hashem's loving grace welcome to a woman of beams with your host laser Brody today's podcast is entitled the successful when you're looking for a prospective match for yourself or for your children today's lesson is important food for thought and Israel is an expression called rakevit it means a Terrain people use it here when there's a family with a bottleneck what does it mean one of the older siblings can't find a so all the other siblings have to wait in line because parents here don't wait in line because parents here don't like to marry off a younger child before they marry off an older child if they do then people start asking what's wrong with the older child that their parents skipped over him or over that's exactly the problem when parents start listening to what other people are saying rather than listening to what Hashem is saying sometimes Hashem simply sends a Shido to a younger child before he sends one to an older sibling assemb did that when he sent the shadow for rochel before Leia well who objected to that love him and he loved ones wasn't exactly that Sadiq he loved ones wasn't exactly that Sadiq the generation true everything turned out for the best but not because Lovin wanted because of Shem let me share one of my original Parables with you if you think the family I'm talking about is someone you know then they're nothing more than an invention from my imagination a coincidence are they similar to anyone today well could be imagine a family in Brooklyn that has what we call an Israel or kevitt the train a bottleneck of the five kids backed up waiting to get married with the oldest daughter 27 years old and the
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- 7:08a few of her offspring how many people today would refuse King David because his great-grandmother…
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