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TOP: Dancing during
the hora. ABOVE,
TOP: The happy
couple. ABOVE,
BOTTOM: Shaarey
Zedek’s Rabbi Aaron
Starr and Assistant
Cantor Leonard
Gutman celebrate.

of radical mindfulness, keeping us in conversation with one
another, with our tradition and with God.”
Meredith’s parents hosted family and friends at their home
for the entire Shabbaton. “We slept on sofas, and stayed up
late talking and laughing,” Meredith says. “We prayed and
read Torah on the front lawn and then played lawn games,
chatted and took walks. It felt like a fam-
ily get together, and it was perfect.”
To help make their wedding — and its
traditions — comfortable and inclusive
for everyone, the couple reached out to
guests ahead of time to offer ideas of how
to participate — making schtick (enter-
taining the bride and groom) for the hora,
making blessings and adding their own
traditions and styles to the day. “Yoni
recorded traditional Jewish wedding
songs and uploaded them to our website
so people could learn them ahead of
time,” Meredith says.
“We had four days of celebrating and,
on that final day, as Jews, Christians,
Muslims and atheists danced and sang
together, it felt like one giant beautiful
family.”
At the end of it all, Meredith says, every
moment represented a blessing they
will never forget — and offered a firmly
grounded root from which to begin their
lives together.
“I think the seed was always there
for showing me that the rituals and
customs in Judaism help you to stay more present in a
relationship,” Meredith says. “Now, it feels complete. We’re
really very different people, but I feel we give each other
what we didn’t have alone — it feels like completion. We
work really hard, but there is this ease to working hard
together.
“We’re obviously a new couple still,” she says, “but it just
keeps getting better. It’s there and right and good.” •