Love Via Hashem

In order to present a nice introduction to this word, I’ve employed the help of some friends: Moment Magazine’s article called Jewish Word | Beshert BY SALA LEVIN August 30, 2013 - Enjoy! A Talmudic Date with Destiny Stroll Manhattan’s Upper West Side on a Saturday night and you’ll find yourself surrounded on all sides by prospective couples trying each other out. The last few years have seen an explosion in the neighborhood’s popularity among Jews in their twenties and thirties. For New York’s young Jewish singles, destiny—or beshert—has an address, and it’s west of Central Park. The term beshert is most often used to mean a soulmate: the one person whom an individual is divinely destined to marry… Though the term beshert can refer to any fortuitous event (“I missed the bus, but it must have been beshert, because I heard it broke down”), it’s most often used to mean a soulmate: the one person whom an individual is divinely destined to marry. The etymology of the Yiddish word—spelled, generally, either bas