Welcome to the fourth episode of Re-Arranged, a podcast about the FYI show Arranged. We, like the show, follow three couples as they prepare for what the show says is an “arranged” marriage.

After an initial recap of what happened to each couple in this weeks episode, we focus on the idea of a couple not speaking or seeing one another in the week leading up to their marriage. To discuss this issue, host Darone Ruskay brings in Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, Associate Dean of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School (and his “I saw her during the week before we got married” wife), to discuss the history of and halacha (Jewish law) that surrounds this custom.

Arranged can be seen on the FYI channel on Tuesday nights at 9:00pm.