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Why Do Jews Marry Young?

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Why is it that in the Orthodox Jewish community, they get married so young? You should have people more mature, experienced, go through life, find out who they are. What do these babies know about who they are? An 18-year-old knows who she is. A 23-year-old knows who he is. Yeah. I said, "It's true. Maybe you should wait till 95. You think that's what they should do?" Okay, not 95, but you got to wait a few years. So, I said, "It's the other way around." You know, it's like two startup companies. It's easy to merge, right? But you take uh AOL tried to make a merge time where everybody is in business for decades. It's not so easy to merge. You know, if I'm a startup and you're a startup, we're both broke. We're both babies. Let's do it together. Once you have a company that's been in business for years, they have their comfort zones. They have their paradigms. You could make mergers, but it's just more complex. It's much more challenging. I already have my stick. You got your stick. And it's already been established for many, many years. You can do it. You can do it, but it takes more inner work to be able to confront my habits, to confront my issues. Startups are easier to come together and invest. And yeah, both babies try to grow up together. You just hope that both babies work together on growing up rather than one of the babies growing up. And they're the other one saying, "I'm going to choose to remain and take bubble baths and uh eat my mom's cookies till I'm 69 years