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“That would probably end up like the story of Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta and the Roman matron…”

In the midrash YY references, a Roman noblewoman asks the heilege Rav what the Hashem has been doing since bryias olam.. Rabbi Yossi replies that Hashem has been engaged in shiduchin which the noblewoman scoffs at, claiming she can do better. She arbitrarily pairs up one thousand of her servants, but the next morning they all complain, proving to her that acting as a schadchan is a far more complex task than it appears and she must admit that no god is like the Ebeshter….Again, this midrash was brought down before the first AI chatbot made shadchanim irrelevant.