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Moderator-80, I don’t know what the exact definition of the word beshow is, but we use that word for meetings between a girl and boy in the Chassidishe world. It is like a date, but the girl and boy sit in, they don’t go out.

In some Chassidishe circles, the boy and girl know that this will be there intended and the beshow is just to fulfill the obligation, I think it was from Chazal or another source that the husband must have seen the wife before getting married. However nobody parent has the right to push a shidduch should the girl not like the boy or vice versa. In most of these cases, these teens are too naive to know anything better and everyone is happy. Yes, in most cases even after they are married.

In other Chassidishe circles, after the girl and boy had their beshow, they each decide for themselves if they want to see each other further. In some circles two times is considered effeicient to decide and some have 3-4 beshows until they are sure that they are intended for each other. But even in this situation with more decision options, there is still less of a question mark whether this is their intended, rather they go to a beshow with the idea that this is probably their intended zivug.