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Each day, a bakery produces the amount of bread that it expects people will buy that day.
Throughout the day, people come in, one at a time, to buy a loaf of bread. Each person sees an entire shelf full of bread. They think, “Bread crisis! Bal tashchis! There is so much bread and no one to eat it!”
However, the baker only produces as much bread as he knows will be sold. The only reason it looks like there is more, is that all the bread is produced and displayed at one point in time. Only occasionally do one or two people ever see the empty shelves, or there is a loaf left over.
This is the source of the shidduch crisis panic. The girls all think they are ready to get married when they finish seminary, but the boys enter the shidduch system one at a time, after yeshiva or college or whenever. Over time, nearly all girls will get taken, but if you take a snapshot at one particular moment, it looks like there are way more girls than boys.
What do you think?
What do you think?
There are so many fallacies in this analogy, I hardly know where to begin.
Let’s start with one factual mistake. One word: freezer.
Plenty bread at end of day given to charities etc. Clearly we are not giving any girl [=Bas Yisroel] to any charity, so dispell your bread theory as quickly as you concocted your bread theory.
This is an excellent time to trash out all of your bread as we are eagerly making our final preparations for Pesach Sheni.
147, I’ll take your chometz. I’m not makpid on chometz on Preach Sheini.
”all girls from all seminaries enter shidduchim at 18/19 the latest.”
not true. Yes a larger subset than the amount of boys doing the freezer, but not close to all.
Torah613: the freezer applies to most boys, since most chareidi boys in america go to lakewood.
Secondly, the freezer only applies to a subset of boys, not all yeshivos.
A large majority. Far from your claim of “one at a time”. And all bochurim have set zemanim. Don’t respond that there’s individual choice, because that’s the same for girls, as SaysMe says.
Thirdly, in this analogy, we’re talking about a hypothetical perfect Baker, Who runs the “bakery” that feeds the world.
You’re using circular reasoning. You’re saying that your analogy must be correct because the argument it supports is correct.
Of course He’s perfect, the question is which challenges He’s given us.
but anyhow, i liked your mashal 🙂
In virtually all cultures, girls are ready to marry (i.e. to start producing children) at a much earlier age than the boys are ready to support the family. It’s a function of biology as much as anything else, and since we can’t criticize the one who did the design, this isn’t an issue to debate (as we could propose causing female not to reach puberty until their mid-20s).
The norm is virtually all human cultures is that brides are younger than their husbands, often by many years. That some people have trouble with this idea is the problem.
That some people have trouble with this idea is the problem.
No, the resulting mismatched numbers, leaving many girls without shidduchim, l”a, is the problem.
Torah613Torah, let me offer my version of your analogy.
Say a hundred people walk into a bakery, each to buy a loaf of bread, but find only ninety loaves on the shelf. Will they panic?
Well, that depends. If the baker is still there, has ample supplies, and will profit enough to make it worth his while to bake an additional ten loaves (and the customers know this) then they will not panic.
If they have seen in the past that he won’t bake any more than his allotment, or don’t know, they might panic.
Obviously, the people panicking are not confident that His plan is to have a shidduch for everyone.
it used to be men could marry two wives, so even though men marrying younger girls resulted in more girls than boys, since some boys took two wives things evened out. now (for a long time by european jews and more recently for sefardic jews) that men cant have two wives we need to figure out what to do about their being extra girls in the shidduch market. either boys gotta marry younger, closer to the age girl marry or (harder and less likely) we go back to the old system where some guys take two wives.
I thought DY meant that in the bakery moshol, people can buy bread at the end of the day and put it in their freezer to keep fresh. So too, men should sign up wives to put in storage for when they get tired of their first one or she gets stale.
That’s why it’s not a good moshol. The boys go in the freezer before they go on the market, and bread goes in the freezer after it’s on the market.
The analogy ti a bakery to the shidduch scene is about as logical as to the self entitlement many of these mediocre learning boys who have no business being in kollel feel is their right.
Just spend some time in pizza shops in Lakewood on a typical weekday for empirical proof.
We are our own worst enemies.
Just spend some time in pizza shops in Lakewood on a typical weekday
Yes! The pizza theory of the shidduch crisis!
Girls are too “deep” because the eat too much pizza and then the shallow boys don’t want to marry them. Because shallow and deep don’t mix.
To pops
You have totally missed my point with your condescending and sarcastic comment.
The so called shidduch crisis is self created.
Does anyone out there ever hear if a shidduch crisis situation existed in pre war Europe?
What about the Sephardic community?
I also have the chicken wings theory of the shidduch crisis.
Let’s see if y’all can figure it out.
To Torah613Torah
What does the comparison of a wife to bread have to do with a bakery?
You can go out and buy flour and bake as much bread as you want. There were no bakeries in Yisro’s time
Torah: not bad. I had nothing in mind, but I’ll take the first one if i have to choose.
Or, why are there more chicken wings than chicken pulkas in the store at any given time? Because the chicken wings are smaller, and the pulkas are bigger, and so it looks like there’s more chicken wings but really every chicken has the 2 wings and 2 pulkas.
So you’re saying it looks like there are more girls because they are fat?
Torah613Torah
It has been mentioned in previous threads that for the most part a girl’s choices are at their maximum when she first starts dating whereas a boy’s choices do not.
Your main point that the same amount of males and females might be of the same age is not what drives the shidduch process.
It is more complex than that.
Just daven to Hashem that you meet your bashert at the right time and that you make the right decision.
Oh. So the problem is that girls aren’t fat enough?
yah, this goes right into a theory I once had. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-real-cause-of-weight-gain
The truth is that my real theory for the shidduch crisis is called the creepy theory.
See, there are really the same number of men and women. But some of the men are creepy, and we take them out of the pool leaving more women than men. And anyone who has ever been to a frum singles event knows precisely what I am talking about.
So you’re saying it looks like there are more girls because they are fat?
kol (literally)
Ratio of buyers to bread is stable. It just doesn’t look like that if you come in the middle of the day, it looks like there’s way more bread than buyers.
The problem is that it looks that way at the end of the day too.
Torah613Torah
I did address the main point of this thread and at this point I will paull back and allow you and Popa to carry on your comedy routine on a very serious subject.
Fat is irrelevant to my analogy.
Of course it is relevant. Because the baker makes one of his breads with raisins even though nobody likes it because there’s a bubby who comes in and buys it. One time the other breads were jealous and grabbed some of the raisins when the baker wasn’t looking, but the bubby still only bought one loaf.
I know plenty of creepy married guys.
I know plenty of creepy married guys.
which proves my point.
which proves my point.
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Anyhow, I changed my mind – it’s a good analogy. If you eat the bread you get dogitis. (See T613’s kitzur thread and popa’s isru chag thread.)
You didnt tell us if this baker offers only white bread, or there is also ample supply of rye, pumpernickel, multi grain or spelt for those who want it? Of course there are those who dont even want bread, and prefer kaiser rolls or bagels perhaps french bread. Is this all available in this bakery of bakeries?
Apushatayid, yes that is another fallacy in this moshol.
No, I meant that it’s not as simple as one random loaf per person.
Bottom line: the panicking is a lack of bitachon. The hishtadlus to even the numbers is not.
Popa- how about the apples and oranges theory, do you know that one?
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