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came from as I moved to a new home
with my husband."
Since the cloth was too fragile to
mount on four poles, Lisa and Ira
used a lace chuppah and during part
of the ceremony, both sets of parents
held the heirloom, hand-embroidered
with coral and maroon flowers, over
the bride and groom.
Mrs. Weiss had survived the war,
survived Auschwitz and returned to
her family home in Hungary to find it
in ruins. But outside, in a muddy
puddle, was her mother's Sabbath •
tablecloth.
"It was all that was left," Mrs. Weiss
recalls. "Horses had trampled it. I
washed it and ironed it and brought it
to America with me. When my grand-
daughter said she wanted to use the
tablecloth as a chuppah ..."
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Tait Of Memory
Oak Park residents Jerry Eizen and his
wife, Becky, exchanged vows beneath
his father's tallit. The custom of using
a prayer shawl as a chuppah dates back
to 17th century Germany and France.
In The Jewish Book of why, author
Alfred J. Kolatch explains that it was
customary for the groom to spread his
tallit over the bride's head as a symbol
of protection.
"My father had cancer and.attend-
ing our wedding was a goal for him,"
Jerry said. "He died six months after
the wedding. I wanted to create a spe-
cial memory for us all.
"Between the two of us, my wife
and I have four siblings. During our
ceremony, each of them held one of
the poles supporting my father's tallis.
Whenever there's a life-cycle event,
using his tallis is a way of keeping him
with us."
Even if you don't have a family
tablecloth or tallit to honor a beloved
relative, Esther Ross, of Garden of
Eden Florist in Southfield, shares this
sweet tradition:
When a Jewish person gets married,
above the chuppah hover all the souls
of those who are gone. When you look
at the chuppah, you have to imagine
all the souls from the past are watch-
ing. Even if someone isn't [physically]
there to be with you, they are there
saying, 'She's so pretty' or 'She better
be good to him.' "
When daughters Ashley and Lindsay
married within a year of each other
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