What' the informed opinion of this letter doing the rounds?
"Something is awry in this generation.
Part of it is the loss of the feminine mystique and the rise of female assertiveness: “The -rd has created new thing in the Earth - a woman will surround a man!” (Yirmiya 31).
Plus rise in zivug-less souls, male souls being reincarnated in female bodies, and vice versa!: “Mrs Thatcher is the best man in Britain” and “Golda Meir is the best man in my cabinet” may have been truisms! See “Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine” Sarah Schneider 2001.
Plus the havoc wrought on female reproductive physiology and psychology by the effects of hormones in animal, dairy and cosmetic products.
Plus the disastrous feminist movement, the female takeover of the workplace, and the raising of whole generation of womanhood on a non-stop diet of TV soap operas and their dreadful female role models as depicted in “Dallas”, “Dynasty”, “The Bitch”, “East Enders” etc, whose frighteningly uninhibited histrionics and unattractive mannerisms even young girls ape to perfection!
Sociologists believe that the nuclear family may be heading for extinction. Even among the Orthodox there is burgeoning group of jewish women over 30 who are resisting massive peer pressure to marry. Many of them openly reject the blessing “who has not made me a woman”, because it implies that it is “better” to be a man, which is indeed the Torah’s stance.
With the
divorce rate in the West being 60%, and even amongst the Orthodox 5-10%, many men are petrified of potential
divorce litigation, ruination of mental health, reputation, finance, alimony, palimony, having to pay child-support for decades, terror of spurious marital violence, marital rape raps and molestation charges for merely changing his own child’ nappies etc etc.
They view Jewish Marriage not just as an act of mesirus nefesh, but even as one of sakonos nefashos. So much risk of sakonoh that some say that Halachic case could be made that in this weakened generation, the commandment to be fruitful and multiply is overridden!
Little wonder that der cheshek ist gefallen – with many feeling no particular desire or need for Jewish Marriage, intimate relations, partner hood, company, child raising etc
There have been not few cases amongst Hareidim recently where the same rabbi who arranged the Jewish Marriage kesubah, was arranging the
divorce get the very first thing next morning! “Better to be alone than unhappy!” is the refrain of a popular song.
"Ben David will not come until every soul has been placed in body" (Yevamos 62). If that finite number of souls is now drawing to a close, many maybe not required to procreate, and in a sense Heaven may be sparing them from modern Jewish Marriage, childrearing,
divorce etc, which for them would be a disastrous ruination!"