| The Ceremony |
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| Opening Nigun - Rabbi Marcus Burstein The Processional (In order of entrance) Rabbi Charles Kroloff Chuppah holders: Deanna Goldman - Dov�s cousin Kathy Hanna - Friend Samantha Cattaneo - Friend Peter Cattaneo - Friend David Santhouse - Dov�s brother Shirley Rabstein - Leslie�s grandmother Jeremy Santhouse - Dov�s brother Doris Coleman - Dov�s aunt Sidney and Barbara Santhouse - Dov�s parents Dov Ben-Shimon - The groom Alan and Lois Klieger - Leslie�s parents Leslie Klieger - The bride |
| A Brief Guide to Our Wedding Ceremony, from the wedding booklet for our wedding guests: When you are invited to a Jewish wedding, you are supposed, in the words of the Wedding Blessings, to �make glad the heart of the bridegroom and bride.� You are here to participate, not merely to observe. Please join in with our festivities enthusiastically, and sing (when appropriate) no matter the quality of your voices! We have chosen to fast today, as is traditional for brides and grooms on their wedding day. Just as on Yom Kippur, this is an act of contrition for past sins so that we can enter the chuppah cleansed of the past and begin our life together anew. It is said that the people of Israel fasted on the day that the Torah was given to them at Sinai; so too are we fasting in preparation for our covenant with each other. This fast will end with the first cup of wine under the chuppah. |
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