Question: A Matchmaker offered a girl for a chiduch and passed all the details on to the groom’s family, but the guy turned down the offer. A month later the guy met his friend and casually told him about the offer made to him by the matchmaker, his friend who knew the girl’s side was very impressed with the offer and excited him about the offer. The guy was willing to move forward, and the friend made the offer himself and continued the entire match until he reached the final.
My question is how much money goes to a matchmaker and if at all
Answer:The matchmaker deserves a third of the matchmaking fee, since without the matchmaker the match would not have started, since the friend did not raise the offer, so the matchmaker deserves to pay for her offer .
However, since the matchmaker did not perform the entire matchmaking procedure but merely proposed the idea, she deserves only a ‘beginner’ part, the custom of giving a beginner a third of the matchmaking fee.
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