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half high. Rachel pinned it
to my head, strapping its
gold chain laces around my
chin.
All this time, I was not
allowed to look in the mir-
ror, but kept looking at my
mother, standing in the cor-
ner in her chiffon cocktail
dress, tissue clutched in her
hand. "I feel like I'm
watching a National
Geographic film and you're
the star," she said. "The
lalah' (bride) is ready
now," Rachel said, as she
went to call my husband so
that the ceremony could
commence.
The crowd gathered out-
side in the garden and the
music began. Music? The
"orchestra" was like no
other I had seen before —
Rachel, with a large tin can
and a stick, and one aging
great aunt, with the lid of a
pot and wooden spoon.
They chanted wedding
songs and prayers in
Yemenite, keeping the beat
with their homemade per-
cussion instruments. My
husband, in a sparkling
silver and black robe, met
us at the front door, and
off we went, arm in arm.
After heaving myself
from my chair, we danced
and twirled to the tunes of
Yemen. In addition to our
orchestra, we had hired a
Yemenite singer, who came
equipped with his own tin
can and yardstick. He sahg
in Yemenite, which sounds
like a mixture of old
Hebrew and Arabic. The
dance step, somewhat like a
"horrah" step, starts off
very slowly and then, while
the tempo turns into a
quickened frenzy, feet begin
to fly.
Eleven o'clock and every-
one is looking at "safta"
(grandmother). She is a
woman of 94, who has
blessed each one of her 32
grandchildren at birth and
now, would be giving her
eldest grandson over to his
new bride. In her hands
was a bowl of "henna," the
ground-up seeds of the hen-
na plant. Mixed with water,
this powder turns into a
dark brown mud. Nowa-
days, women use henna to
highlight their hair.
The mixture was ready
and my husband and I took
our seats at a festive white
table decorated with red
roses and tiny lit candles.
Our grandmother arose
and, when all the guests
were silent, sang a prayer
in our honor. She took my
husband's hand and put a
circle of henna on his palm.
In her broken Hebrew, she
recited a prayer, explaining
that this stain of color
placed on him by his family
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Friday, February 13, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS