In our society, we confuse our feeling of love for infatuation. In the short story "The Magic Barrel," the main character in the story, Leo Finkle is a rabbinical student at the Yeshivah University. After six years of study he was to be ordained and he was advised my a colleague that if he were to be married he might find it easier to build a congregation. Leo found this a difficult matter because he …showed first 75 words of 502 total…

…showed last 75 words of 502 total…love for the wrong reasons: looks, lust, money, and sex are the common mistakes people make before getting to know the real person. This will only lead to disappointments later in a relationship and end in heartache. Many people use the Internet and match making services to meet someone for personal companionship. Only to get hurt because it is too easy to pretend to be someone else and fall in love for the wrong reasons.