Shidduchim and Shadchanim : Then and Now
Do you know any Bais Yaakov girls today who would marry a boxer? How about a soldier? And do you know any young man who is worried that his perspective date is not really shomer Shabbos? All these scenarios are very unlikely! But it wasn’t always that way. In previous generations, it was sometimes hard to find a religious person to marry.
In the book, Lieutenant Birnbaum (ArtScroll), the author, Meyer Birnbaum, describes the marriage of his parents. His mother had come from Europe in the early 1900s and was very religious. She had a hard time finding a frum man to marry. She was already 30 when she met his father. Here is how their first meeting was described in the book: