237 | On the Interval Between the Betrothal and the Marriage Ceremony However, even in much later times, it sometimes happened that there was a long interval between the two events . thus rabbi Isaac Lampronti ( Ferrara, attests : ( in his Pahad Yitzhak, Lyck 1864, fol . 3 a ) : ) 1756 - 1675 It once happened that a kohen, who was betrothed to an orphan girl, sent her a ring, as was the local custom . a long time passed, by fault of the matchmaker, and she accepted betrothal from another, without the annulment of the nisu’in ] i . e . betrothal [ before the court, as is the custom . 3 See further what I wrote in Vol . 1, pp . 163 - 164, note 27, on the institution of “first 3 marriage” . Here it should be noted that there was yet an earlier stage prior to the erusin, called shiduchin, where the families meet to agree upon a marriage . there was a shadchan, a matchmaker, and perhaps even more commonly a shadchanit, a female matchmaker, who received a fee for their activities . these wer...
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