Shidduch Project Claims Results

By COLlive reporter

A project started to help the organization Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah, which pays for wedding expenses for needy couples, has also helped many girls and bochurim find their shidduch.

Last year, Shlucha Devora Caytak of Ottawa, Canada looked for a way to help raise funds for the Crown Heights organization in the merit of which she hoped to find Shidduchim for her 2 children.

The fund, known as KSCVK and run by Devorah Benjamin, was about to make a wedding for an orphan, and $10,000 was needed.

Caytak told friends and posted online about her initiative: singles or their parents should donate $100 per name, and 100% of the money would go to KSCVK.

The hope was, in the merit of giving Tzedakah, the bochur or girl would merit to find their proper Shidduch, she said.

Within 9 days, $13,000 was raised, and the wedding expenses were covered. The kallah, Devorah Benjamin and Devorah Caytak then went to the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens and prayed for each name that donated.

Benjamin was very moved by the outpouring of support the project received. “I was speechless to see the amount of achdus Chabad women have,” she told COLlive.

“They didn’t waste a second. They all said, ‘someone needs help, let’s pull together.’ It didn’t matter where they are from, this project brought women together from around the world for a common cause.”

Once the wedding was over, “the most amazing things started to happen,” says Caytak.

“People started calling us, saying that the segulah had worked,” she says “One woman told us nothing had been moving for her daughter, and after taking part in the project they have a serious name being discussed. Another said a suggestion that had come up for her son the year before and they had turned down, they had for some reason checked into again – and the couple was about to get engaged. People just kept coming back with stories,” she said.

Indeed, the segulah seems to have worked for the Caytaks, as they were fortunate to marry off two children within eleven days of each other, shortly after this Shidduch project.

After such amazing results, Caytak is organizing the Shidduch Project again until Rosh Hashana. If you know of a bochur or girl that is in need of a Shidduch, please contact Devora Caytak at 613-729-7712 or e-mail dev18@sympatico.ca. Please provide the girl/bochur’s full Jewish name and Mother’s Jewish name, address, telephone and e-mail and credit card information ($100 per name).

100% of the money raised (we need to raise $10,000, to pay for one orphan’s wedding) will be sent to KSCVK. All the names submitted will be read at the Ohel by the Kallah and the two Devorahs.