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Extravagant weddings and bar mitzvahs humiliate the Jewish community

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/rabbi_shmuley/item/extravagant_weddings_and_bar_mitzvahs_humiliate_the_jewish_community_201008

On Aug. 22, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about extravagant Jewish Iranian weddings in Southern California that exposes our community as a bunch of shallow, boastful materialists who think the purpose of a marriage ceremony is to tell your friends how much money you have. Some of the details mentioned in the article, confirmed to me by people who actually attended, included a bride placed in a glass coffin to be opened by her half-masked “Phantom of the Opera” bridegroom. The coffin did not open for an hour, and the wedding was nearly ruined by a shaken and tearful bride gasping for breath. But the coffin, on that occasion, was a telling symbol of the utter death of Jewish values that such ridiculous extravagances betray.

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Comments:	A friend has recommended you read the following from The Jewish Journal... Extravagant weddings and bar mitzvahs humiliate the Jewish community On Aug. 22, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about extravagant Jewish Iranian weddings in Southern California that exposes our community as a bunch of shallow, boastful materialists who think the purpose of a marriage ceremony is to tell your friends how much money you have. Some of the details mentioned in the article, confirmed to me by people who actually attended, included a bride placed in a glass coffin to be opened by her half-masked “Phantom of the Opera” bridegroom. The coffin did not open for an hour, and the wedding was nearly ruined by a shaken and tearful bride gasping for breath. But the coffin, on that occasion, was a telling symbol of the utter death of Jewish values that such ridiculous extravagances betray. http://www.jewishjournal.com/rabbi_shmuley/item/extravagant_weddings_and_bar_mitzvahs_humiliate_the_jewish_community_201008 Sign up for our free email news alerts at http://www.jewishjournal.com/email.

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