This weekend was amazing! (that was for Uncle Robin). My roomate for the past 6 months got married on Sunday evening and we had a huge party for him over Shabbat. Many people came from England, including a Dayan, for the wedding. A religious wedding is something everyone should experience. When you see 80-year-old men dancing like they are 18 for the sole purpose of making the groom and bride happy, you truly see the beauty. When you see the escort that the groom and bride get from the huppah, about a hundred singing and dancing yeshiva students, you begin to understand the joy. When you see one of the most knowlegable Torah scholars in all of Britain balancing a glass bottle of wine on his head while dancing... well I hope you get the point.
For the entire week following the wedding the newlyweds have one special meal each day. One of the reasons for these meals is to make sure the new couple is happy and surrounded with friends. Tonight we had a barbecue for them. There is a custom to have someone who was not at the wedding at each of these special meals. Since all of the Jewish people in the world are considered a single entity, when two Jews get married they do not only affect them and their family but they have an effect on the entire Jewish nation. When Jews marry each other they are choosing to continue the Jewish nation for at least one more generation. The reason that a person who was not invited to the wedding attends each of these meals is to remind the people there that in addition to the groom and bride being happy, the entire Jewish nation is strengethened by the marriage.
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