Let’s not pretend- we are all proud that we are bnei avrohom yitzchok and yaakov. If your father is famous or a millionaire it matters to you. If your father is a tzaddik that matters too, and it matters to a potential shidduch as well. There is something that gets passed along-either it’s zchus avos or genes or something. You find very often that greatness or wealth stays in a family. All things being equal, it’s definitely a major plus. Having said that, the first priority is that (s)he be a mentch. Avrohom Avinu was mishadech with besuel not because of his yichus-a better mechutan he could have found. It was the imahos’ middos that put them on top of the shidduch list.
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