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In Judaism, a shadchan—whether official or not—has connected partners over the ages.

“She’s still recovering from her illness. You know how easily she gets upset and forgets things. And go wash yourself. I wonder that Fayge ever accepted the shadchan’s offer for your hand in marriage. You are so much of a prize you can kiss women without bathing?”

The matchmaker, called a shadchan, is necessary because of the strict separation of the sexes.

A fool of you!" echoed the Shadchan indignantly, "when I give you a chance of a boot and shoe manufacturer's daughter.

"Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought, with a consolatory sense of outwitting the Shadchan.