Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008...4:00 am
Ritual for love
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“As water mirrors a face,
a heart responds to another.”
- Proverbs 27:1
The veiled bride wore a long white gown, the bearded groom wore a big black hat, and, with 300 friends, family, dignitaries and curious onlookers gathered by the lake yesterday in this Laurentian town, the two were married in an unusually public Hasidic Jewish ceremony. By custom and fundamentalist religious belief, Hana Sellem, a French immigrant, and Moshe Barouk, an American visiting from Florida - who only met several months ago through a matchmaker - hadn’t seen each other for one week before the ceremony. They had also fasted and studied the Torah to prepare for their big day. > Canada.com
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