Hasidic Wedding Pictures

A slidehow of photographs taken at a large hasidic wedding in Israel.

See the entire slideshow, So Close, Yet So Far, in the New York Times.

{Hat Tip: Sarek of Vulcan.]

Comments

[KJ]

Mazel Tov! May they both have luck, blessings, and peace, health and sustenance.

[Shoshi]

Gorgeous photography.

[corn popper]

The correct title for this post should be:
Chasidic Porn, Art or Journalism?

[Yosef ben Matitya]

a male chosid is a chosid.
a woman? chosidoh? (stork?)
no vonder they are all treife!
no?

[Bas Melech]

Beautiful photography!!

[KJ]

The correct title for this post should be:
Chasidic Porn, Art or Journalism?

Posted by: corn popper | February 16, 2012 at 10:46 AM

You are right! What was missing from the slideshow were the mikvah shots!

[jancsipista]

So does the groom have a good job or income or is it a life of sheltered bliss?

[vase sheech n' zoken]

The pics look like paintings. beautiful. Someone should tell the NY times that it's not the groom dancing with the bride. it's the rebbe.

[rebitzman]

In these pics she looks about 18 and he looks about 60.

No judgement - just saying.........

[itchiemayer]

What I don't understand is why these chasidic weddings go to all hours of the night, such that the newlyweds are not able to perform the mitzva at the proper time?

[TheRealJoe]

Who's the modern looking dude right near the Kallah in the first picture????

[KJ]

A little off topic but word has it that Matisyahu's beard is returning!

https://twitter.com/#!/matisyahu/status/167994990826491905

https://yfrog.com/h3jnqlej:iphone

[ah-pee-chorus]

how long before white dresses are prohibited for brides?

to the bride:
welcome to a life of complete servitude where your womb will be continuously harvested and your mind not at all.

[corn popper]

She looks like shes about to faint

[Adam Neira]

Mazeltov to the happy couple. May they have a long, healthy and happy life in a Holy Land of peace and prosperity.

Interestingly the Jakarta Post which is the highest circulation English language newspaper in the largest Muslim population country in the world, i.e. Indonesia, ran a front page story on their website with this photo.

A great sign for 2012 !

P.S. Re. the Jakarta Post. Me and my girlfriend of the time appeared on the front page of the Saturday May 29th, 1999 print edition of the paper the day after a massive pre-election Megawati rally that we attended as idealistic tourists who cared for the country. Indonesia has stabilised greatly since then and the GDP has grown by more than 7% p.a. over that time. So overall Indonesia is on the right path. Hidup Indonesia !

P.S.S. Wedding ceremonies all around the world have various aspects to them. The Mitzvah Tanz ritual is fascinating and beautiful in its own way, but it may not be for every woman. I am loathe to criticise it though as all groups have their own ways of doing things and the essence of this tradition shows great respect for a newly betrothed woman.

[Eli]

nah... this is art. spectacular photography.

[Shmarya]

to the bride:
welcome to a life of complete servitude where your womb will be continuously harvested and your mind not at all.

Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | February 16, 2012 at 12:40 PM

Lets all hope she doesn't have a mind to harvest so she won't suffer.

Wait. That's not right. We shouldn't hope to condemn a woman to a life of blissful stupidity and ignorance. It's cruel.

We should hope she does have a mind and uses it to leave!

Oops. No. That's not right. It's unfair to her husband and future children and, as haredim are quick to point out, it's antisemitic to wish for that.

Then we must hope haredi society changes and it values the minds of bright young women like her!

Oops! I'm wrong again. My bad. It's wrong to want to impose non-haredi values or any type of modernity on haredim. In fact, it's antisemitic. Lots of haredim have told us so.

So what we non-haredim have to do is change ourselves! Yes, the Baal Shem Tov was right! Whatever problems we see in others are actually reflections of out own problems! WE are the ones who have to change! It is our mistreatment of women that is wrong! We should remove the burden of education and public social participation from women! We should let our women do what they were born to do, what they were designed by God to do: be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen making us men lokshen kugel!!! Popp the babies out of their tired wombs like puppies have litters!

That's right!

It is we non-haredim who are wrong!!! It is we non-haredim who need help!!!

Phew!!!

I'm glad we were able to straighten that out!!!

Thank God for haredi logic!!!

[/end satire]

[Lubavitchers are Christians]

Lets all hope she doesn't have a mind to harvest so she won't suffer.

Wait. That's not right. We shouldn't hope to condemn a woman to a life of blissful stupidity and ignorance. It's cruel.

We should hope she does have a mind and uses it to leave!

Oops. No. That's not right. It's unfair to her husband and future children and, as haredim are quick to point out, it's antisemitic to wish for that.

Then we must hope haredi society changes and it values the minds of bright young women like her!

Oops! I'm wrong again. My bad. It's wrong to want to impose non-haredi values or any type of modernity on haredim. In fact, it's antisemitic. Lots of haredim have told us so.

So what we non-haredim have to do is change ourselves! Yes, the Baal Shem Tov was right! Whatever problems we see in others are actually reflections of out own problems! WE are the ones who have to change! It is our mistreatment of women that is wrong! We should remove the burden of education and public social participation from women! We should let our women do what they were born to do, what they were designed by God to do: be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen making us men lokshen kugel!!! Popp the babies out of their tired wombs like puppies have litters!

That's right!

It is we non-haredim who are wrong!!! It is we non-haredim who need help!!!

Phew!!!

I'm glad we were able to straighten that out!!!

Thank God for haredi logic!!!

[/end satire]

Posted by: Shmarya | February 16, 2012 at 01:26 PM

I don't get your point. Why don;t you just let her live the way she wants. Did she bother you?

I understand that you have issues with some of the haredis, but what did this poor girl do to you? Why not hope that she should just have a happy life with her new husband?

Why do some people always stick their minds into others' business?

[Mikal W. Grass]

I am guessing that Shmarya posted these photos because he was moved by them as being "art", not because he wanted commentary.

What happens after all weddings is really none of anyone's business. I dare say that some of the wives of some of the commentators on this site live lives of quiet desperation.

Shmarya, thank you for posting these photos. They are truly beautiful.

[flat earth]

Good old NY Times. Too bad they give no coverage of all the Hasidic SH*T going on.

[KJ]

I don't get your point. Why don;t you just let her live the way she wants. Did she bother you?

Every chassidic breath is offensive. Every move made by them is offensive. If they step out of a room to make a phone call, that is offensive. If they get off a highway go to the upper level of a parking lot near a rest stop to daven mincha, that is offensive. If they wear a wig, that is offensive. If they collect money to help one of their own, that is offensive. If they have too many kids, that is offensive. The list is endless!

Face it, to some the only good chassid is a ...

[seymour]

wtf

how could the rabbi dance with a woman be in the same room and close proximity to her

no singing but dancing is ok

[jancsipista]

kj-now reverse it and according to them everything we do is wrong,so you see youre one mindless dude it works both ways

[KJ]

kj-now reverse it and according to them everything we do is wrong,so you see youre one mindless dude it works both ways

Posted by: jancsipista | February 16, 2012 at 02:32 PM

True, but they are not busy or obsessed with what the "outside" world is doing as we are with what they are doing.

If a Reformed day school would be slapped with an eviction notice because they have fire safety code violations the chassidim will not be all up in arms about it. They will not be talking about it from the pulpit or writing articles about it.

No, this is not a reversible argument.

[seymour]

No, this is not a reversible argument.

Posted by: KJ | February 16, 2012 at 03:01 PM

true because one or two is not a story but many is a story and it shows a pattern

[KJ]

No, this is not a reversible argument.

Posted by: KJ | February 16, 2012 at 03:01 PM

true because one or two is not a story but many is a story and it shows a pattern

Posted by: seymour | February 16, 2012 at 03:14 PM

Even if 20 day schools would have the fire code problem it would not change my argument. The chassidim simply do not care while we care about everything chassidim do. Would a chaddic paper post pictures about an elaborate reformed Jew's wedding? Here we are busy ogling at a hassidic wedding of someone we don't know(!!) half a world away!

[effie]

That doesn't look like a dress, it looks like a shroud.

[effie]

KJ: People here are concerned about the lost of life - especially children, due to violations of the fire code.

[KJ]

KJ: People here are concerned about the lost of life - especially children, due to violations of the fire code.

Posted by: effie | February 16, 2012 at 03:29 PM

People here at Failedmessaih "care" about haredi children.

RIGHT!

[ah-pee-chorus]

@Posted by: Shmarya | February 16, 2012 at 01:26 PM-

says it all.

[ah-pee-chorus]

Even if 20 day schools would have the fire code problem it would not change my argument.,,,,,Posted by: KJ

you conveniently leave out some key points.

1. please provide any example of an MO, conserv. or reform institution which chooses to wilfully violate zoning laws and regs., even after losing in court. such brazen criminality is unique to charedim here in the USA.

2. even if you would find such a case, other jews of the same strain would surely denounce such actions and the synagogue or school that did it. the movement heads would probably kick them out if they ignored local laws and rules. contrast that with charedim, who are either completely silent or openly support the flouting of zoning rules, while usually screaming antisemitism. this hurts all jews as it turns us into the boy who cried wolf.

3. no other sect of jews claims to have a monopoly on 'real' and 'authentic' judaism as charedim do.

4.when you separate yourselves in so many ways, particularly with a dress code that screams "we are super-jews" you have a much greater responsibility to conduct yourselves in a manner that brings respect for jews rather than shame and disgrace.

5. when your rabbis scream about the need for more and more chumras , bans and restrictions to keep holy, and then stand by silently as dina d'malchuta dina is being violated, or worse yet are encouraging such violations, your rabbis and you look like hypocrites with no real moral compass.

so NO, the attitudes expressed towards charedim here are justified, and we have a right if not an obligation to call them out for the damage they inflict on all jews. .

[KJ]

please provide any example of an MO, conserv. or reform institution which chooses to wilfully violate zoning laws and regs., even after losing in court. such brazen criminality is unique to charedim here in the USA

I guess everything went right over your head. My point was that they are not busy looking at other people be they reformed conservative secular or gentile to find things that they are doing wrong. They are mostly busy with their own lives.

As my previous point shows. We are busy with THEIR weddings even though we know no one there (!!), they are not busy looking at weddings outside of their circle. Understand this point and you will see the difference.

[who knows]

KJ, I thing you are dreaming.
1) hassidim do look at weddings outside their circle.
2) outside world have interest in their weddings because they are odd strange and exotic. Their weddings interest outside world in the very same way as other odd looking weddings such as weddings in the primitive tribes of Papua and New Gunea.

[ah-pee-chorus]

I guess everything went right over your head.

Posted by: KJ

no, you simply have no ability to defend your words.

The chassidim simply do not care while we care about everything chassidim do.

we care because their actions hurt all jews as i showed. i didnt even go into the other aspect in how they try to i mpose their views on others when they can. as per this wedding, WK's answer above says it well. they are human oddities in so many of their actions.

i find these pix quite sad.

[jancsipista]

ah-pee-chorus-Right on ahpee, i agree with you 100 per cent, they are oddities and they do bring alot of shame to us all normal jews

[jancsipista]

People fail to mention another illigal behaviour ,here in bp they built porches which are illigal in the back of houses for their succoth there are hundreds here in bp once its built they know the city cant do anything against them they get away with such behaviour because there is no one to challange them they are scott free to do whatever they feel like doing

[Dovit]

Why is she in the men's section? that is immodest!

[Yechiel]

APC
Dina demalchuta is the silly component you shmendriks never fail to throw in to your hateful arguments. Many of our country's laws are akin to the unnecessary chumrahs some of our rabbis are forcing on us.
Yes, honesty and integrity is necessary for a nation's and its people's stability. Other laws however, are often the products of arrogant and corrupt lawmakers.
So take your beloved dina demalchuta and 'drey a kup' until you grow tired; it won't change anything.

[ah-pee-chorus]

Yechiel -

i forgot. silly chumras like zoning laws and fire safety requirements may be ignored if you can make a layning on a blatt gemara. my bad.

[charlie runkel]

and we give a crap.....