Eitan Kalmowitz: Lubavitch Shidduchim

My father is not Frum and I sometimes have some difficulty explaining to him how the whole Shidduchim system works because you know, my father's an attorney and we're not crazy rich but he does well and he says to me one time, "Eitan I don't understand." "You have some money. I would think that people would be jumping all over you!" "Why has it been so hard for you?" I said, Dad, listen in this community we value things more important than money like where your great-grandfather is from he said, "America is bad?" I said, yeah. America is very bad so of course I'm talking about Gezh other communities might call it Yichus for those not familiar, Gezh means that your Zaide was a Lubavitcher who sat in prison in Russia that's another thing I had fun explaining to him prison good, America bad but I'm a proactive guy so I actually sought to rectify this many years back when I was in Yeshiva in Tzfas I had a friend who was very very Gezh both his grandfather and his great grandfather both were in prison in Russia I think that's actually where they made the Tenoim I contracted with him - true story I contracted with him to purchase 10% of his Gezh for the sum of 1,000 American dollars sounds like a good deal, right? I thought so too but later I found out that was only one side on the other side, he came from Rabbi Nachman Breslover the first Satmar Rebbe which cancelled out the whole thing I went back to him, I said take your tainted Gezh and give me my thousand dollars back. www.Frumprov.com