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Post by peachymom1 on Jan 8, 2024 23:53:12 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by peachymom1 on Jan 8, 2024 23:53:54 GMT -5
Good morning! My son hasn’t decided yet on a song for us to do a mother-son dance to at his wedding next month. There are tons of suggestions all over the internet for such a dance song, not to mention suggestions from darn near everyone we all know, but DS33 still isn’t sure. He wants an upbeat song, not a slow one, and that’s as far as he’s gotten with it. I’m ready to tell him to pick any song by K.C. & the Sunshine Band, and we’ll do a little disco dance I learned in my high school dance class! Go right ahead and laugh – he might just say yes! He’s a fun guy, and my sisters know that dance too, so they could join us on the dance floor – how cool would that be?
My father didn’t attend my wedding, so I didn’t have a father-daughter dance, and because of that, DH didn’t do a mother-son dance either. We got everyone on the floor with a hora, done to a wonderful Israeli disco version of “Hava Nagila.” It was a total blast, and I remember it clearly, almost 39 years later.
What are people doing these days for wedding dances? What did you do at your own wedding, or that of your siblings / kids / friends? When I think of Jewish weddings, I always think of dancing. What comes to your mind when you imagine a Jewish wedding? Tell us some wedding stories!
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Post by gazelle18 on Jan 9, 2024 8:34:23 GMT -5
My son and his first wife had become Orthodox, and their wedding was the first truly orthodox wedding I’d ever attended. When the ceremony was over , and it came as a total surprise to me, several of his friends danced an Israeli dance backwards down the aisle as they walked down it! It was adorable and I laughed in delight. Apparently, this is fairly commonly done at Orthodox weddings, but I’d never seen it and thought it was wonderful .
Since the wedding was Orthodox, there was no mixed dancing, and so no mother/son dance. My daughter-in-law’s dad, who is a very lovely man, was so disappointed not to be able to do a father/daughter dance. But the two sets of circle dances, one male and the other female, were fun and joyful.
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Post by lee058 on Jan 9, 2024 8:42:56 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.
Re today's topic: When DH and I got married, we basically eloped, so no dancing.
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by hollygail on Jan 9, 2024 9:19:07 GMT -5
At my wedding, the mother-son dance was me and my son and I have zero recollection what the music was, and then me and my grandson (at the time, there was just one; he must have been around 9ish). The father-daughter dance was DH and my granddaughter (while I danced with my grandson); I have zero recollection what the music was for those either. We had a small klezmer band I'd found through my cantor (and was paid for by late DSIN and late DBIL as their wedding gift for us and we were suitably grateful). I don't remember what we chose for our first dance either, but I'm sure it was a slow dance of some kind...
When DS and DDIL married, I don't remember any dancing or music either. Is it terrible that I don't? I remember the ceremony very well (for one thing, I changed the sheva brachot for them under the chuppah). I don't even remember whether the reception was in the back of the shul (which is where their son's bar mitzvah took place and that luncheon was in the back part of the shul, which apparently doubled as the "social hall" for other events too).
I'm sure between you and your DS, an appropriate song will be chosen.
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Post by hollygail on Jan 9, 2024 9:40:59 GMT -5
I just saw that today is Word Nerd Day. We have some word nerds among us...
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Post by peachymom1 on Jan 9, 2024 12:08:00 GMT -5
Oy vey, DH just got laid off. Ugh!
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