They Met 5 Times. Then They Got Married. Inside Hasidic Matchmaking.

I was eighteen when a matchmaker called my parents and said she had someone in mind for me. I had never met her. She had never met me. Three months later, we were married. This is how the Hasidic marriage system works — from the shidduch resume, to the bashow, to the bedeken, to the yichud room where two people sit alone together for the very first time as husband and wife. It's a system that has produced lasting marriages for generations. It's also a system that has produced real pain. This video doesn't try to tell you which is more true. It shows you what it actually looks like from the inside.