Imagine the actual broken wedding glass or lightbulb from your Jewish wedding suspended in a clear Lucite Wedding Cube or Mezuzah for you to keep forever.
At the betrothal the stipulations made by each party were fixed ("tena'im rishonim"), and a glass was thrown upon the floor, the broken pieces of which were saved to be laid upon the eyes of the espoused pair after death.Preliminaries. In Poland, even to-day, the bridegroom receives ...
Today’s couples are sometimes saving the pieces of their broken glass to be transformed into a new piece of Judaica, such as a mezuzah or candlesticks. 7. Making Pre-wedding Choices One of the greatest things about Jewish weddings is that the celebration is spread out over time, giving ...
co-Emperor with Honorius. Constantinius only reigned for 7 months, but during his long tenure Honorius was no friend of the Jews as can be seen by his promulgation of “a new law requiring any taxes collected by Jewish leaders from the Jewish community to be sent to the imperial treasury....
We want to sit next to the person at work, shul, or school who is cheery, who always sees the glass half full, and who sees a shining light in everything. Remember, a broken clock is correct twice a day!! We humans, after all, are thinkers (well at least some of us are) and...
With the marriage of my parents, Sylvia Guttmann to Oskar Spitzer, on August 28,1937, the families I have been tracing on this blog are joined. Thanks to the success of their immediate forebears, the first generation of emancipated Austrian Jews, the members of the wedding party–pictured ...
My wedding song I dance to with my kids about the Sabbath bride, begins. I’m not a big dancer, not in public at least. All of the sudden, almost as if not even by my own volition, I feel my legs starting to take steps towards this man. I cannot stop them. Step after step, ...
She has dubbed their impending nuptials “My Big Fat Jewish Chinese German Wedding.” Yet there was still one more selling point that my daughter had up her sleeve. (Although given our taste in bridal gowns, there would probably be no sleeves involved.) As I have indicated, Say Yes to ...
Continue reading "Use Magnetic Poster Hangers To Display Your Art!" » Hey there, the whole world has fun coming up with creative IKEA hacks, so I'm now joining the club. This first one I'm sharing is not my idea, so only taking credit for seeing the idea and actually following thr...