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More in The ShmoozeShmuley Boteach is sick of the dating scene. In an article published last week in the Jewish Press, “America’s Rabbi” ranted that Jewish singles place utmost importance on superficial values — such as looks and money — when seeking a lifelong mate. Boteach complains that singles are “immune to love” and go on endless dates, but can’t find a person who meets their standards because they make quick judgments instead of seeking a deeper spiritual connection.
“Only people with the right packaging get noticed, and it’s un-Jewish,” Boteach told The Shmooze. “It’s become so artificial, so shallow.”
In an effort to remedy the situation and help lonesome singles everywhere find their basherts, the host of The Learning Channel network’s show “Shalom in the Home” has launched a dating Web site, www.loveprophet.com. Boteach hopes the site will bring a “human aspect” to online dating and allow singles to focus on matters of the heart and spirit, as opposed to appearance and income.
“We’re going to have a team of matchmakers built into the system to help people along,” Boteach said. “I don’t want to have pictures. I think the picture should come later.”
He added, “Look, I don’t know if this is going to be successful, but I know that the system needs to be fixed.”
Look out, JDate!
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Rabbi Botach;
I think your show was great until you had the woman and her husband bring a massage person in to give his wife a massage and have another man put his hands on his wife. My husband will not watch your show again because of that.
On the other hand, your date website would be great if you could make it simple and no showy like your show was.
I think from my "dating" years, I hated. If you are not "good looking" you didn't get date at all.
I feel that looks or size should matter when it comes to finding a husband or wife. Looks should not be the first thing a guy or girl look for first. It should be about their personality, how they enter act with each other and how they get along with one another first. But I think they should court each other with other people around them, not by themselves at all until they are married.
My husband, who is now a Rabbi, we did not date by ourselves, we always had our friends around us first, then right before we got married, we then when on our "first" date before we got married.
That is what is wrong with our society today, people worry about their looks and nothing else.
People, look at your future mates, see what is on the side, this is what G-D has done for us. G-D does for us. He looks on our insides not the outside. G-D does not make ungly people, inside or outside. He does not make mistakes with anyone.
Remember, before you look for someone for life, seek G-D first and see who He has for life partner.
Thanks for your time, Rabbi.
Great. This is what the world needs. Another dating site. That's going to solve the singles "crisis." I'm really not understanding how another dating website will bring a "human aspect" to the dating. As someone who writes about this subject quite a bit, I hear a lot of stories. And people who want a human element usually try to meet in person; 8 times out of 10, when it was fine online, it wasn't in real life. Maybe that's part of the problem, not the mode of meeting.
But I know many singles, including myself, who would be quite happy if Boteach proved us wrong.
Pretty unrealistic, even for an Orthodox rabbi. Even worse, he offers no alternative solution.