Many of you are familiar with the Broadway musical, Fiddler On The Roof. It is a touching story about a deeply devout middle-aged Jewish man named Tevye and his wife Golde (pronounced Golda). They live in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their lives are hard, but filled with devotion. A complicating factor in their lives is that they have all daughters. Finding proper matches for their daughters is a major theme in the musical. This is in a community in which marriages are arranged by the parents. This is complicated by the emerging desire of Tevye's daughters to follow their hearts and not the wishes of their parents. In other words, they fall in love with young men who are not suitable matches.

Tevye and Golde are themselves in an arranged marriage. Romantic love was no…