American bochurim have been receiving texts informing them that they are eligible for a new $500 voucher towards a flight to Eretz Yisroel – if they go there to learn by fourth-year Sukkos or earlier. YWN has confirmed that the texts being received are authentic and legitimate.
The voucher, which is part of the broader initiative by roshei yeshiva to close the shidduch age gap, is available for both direct and stopover flights, and all tickets must be booked through H&M Travel Services. Bochurim can contact the agency at 212-434-0203 ext. 209 or ext. 225, or by emailing [email protected].
To qualify for the voucher, a member of the yeshiva’s Hanhala or office must reach out to H&M Travel Services to confirm that the bochur is enrolled in the yeshiva’s bais medrash program.
The $500 voucher will be distributed as long as funds remain available. Those planning to head to Eretz Yisroel are encouraged to secure their flights early to ensure they receive the funding.
The roshei yeshivos leading this initiative – including Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rav Elya Chaim Swerdloff, Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, Rav Mendel Slomovitz, and Rav Mottel Dick, under the guidance of Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch – have previously stated that in addition to sending bochurim to Eretz Yisroel at an earlier age, they will also be asking of girls to delay entering shidduchim to assist in closing the age gap, as well as telling bochurim not to date girls breaking the new takana and entering the shidduch market earlier.
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Unless moreinu rosh hayeshiva shlita rav avraham yehoshua soloveitchik is accepting bochurim this zman nothing the askanim do or say will change the facts.
The oilam wants to go learn in brisk and thats that!!
Anyone willing to change his trajectory for a $500 voucher, is not someone I would want for my daughter!
Anyone who only values the name brisk, even though there are many wonderful yeshivas of equal value, even at the cost of causing scores of girls to never get married, is truly selfish, and not someone I would want for my daughter
Wow. This is the first time we are seeing movement on this issue
This is a historic moment in Klal Yisrael
May all those involved be Gebenshed with much Bracha
Kol Hakavood.
It looks like there is real movement and progress.
The efforts of the Roshei Yeshiva should hopefully be successful and bring relief to this difficult situation.
WOW, this is history in our making. Finally someone sat down and did the math and sees that we have a real issue of more boys and that if boys go to learn earlier there will be more boys on the market. Im sure there will be pushback as whenever there is good, evil tries to stop it
You guys all missed the boat the reason that 80 percent of mainstream (Sug aleph yeshivas) don’t go to ertz yisroel before 4th year pesach is that the bochurim are not ready to get married any earlier!!!
In the words of my rosh yeshiva we will have a gittin crisis instead off a shidduch crisis!
And this is before all the other arguments of who said bochurim who btw shtieg more in America than israel (kmat bli yotzei min haklal) need to give up on their limited yeshiva years just because the girls are suffering!
I’m not trying to be selfish but this is a real shaila that needs the biggest gedolie hadors daas torah!!
The above mentioned is the main reason that nothing significant has not and probably will not change!!
It’s appalling to see the word “market” applied to young men and women. What is this, a Moroccan street bazaar?
“[they] are telling bochurim not to date girls breaking the new takana and entering the shidduch market earlier…”
Not sure all bnos yisroel want to be told when and how they can consider meeting their beschert and starting a family nor appreciate the characterization of their dating efforts as if they were a shtick fleish in a meat market context. This seemingly nonstop crescendo of “shidduch crisis” headlines only serves to exacerbate an already stressful situation and offering a meaningless financial incentive is unlikely to motivate any serious bochur in his decisions on how to balance decisions on where to continue his studies, when and who to date, etc.
Shtick!!