Missing a Beat

Gershon: I understand your community standards, but you’ve put me in an impossible position

Rabbi Goldblum: I know you want to do the right thing, but what about the next baal simchah?

Gershon

I don’t know why it took me by surprise. It wasn’t as if I’d never made a wedding before. But this time… well, I guess I do know why this time was different.

The last three weddings I’d made were a few years ago, before Covid, when business was booming. Sure, it cost an arm and a leg, but baruch Hashem, we could afford it.

Now… things were different.

I had a job, and I was grateful for it — but my own business had disintegrated long ago, leaving a pile of debts, and it felt like financial security was a long way off.

Now, my son Naftali was getting married, and together with the excitement and gratitude and joy came more than a hint of worry.