Why are my children settling for a second-rate sheva brachos?
I hung up the phone with my daughter Sarah, a huge smile on my face. It was official! It’s always a simchah when a grandchild gets engaged. But with Chava, it was special.
Not just because she’s the oldest granddaughter, the one whose birth catapulted me into a brand-new role, but because we’ve waited years for this.
Chava may be the oldest of the cousins, but she’s the — what, seventh, eighth? — to get married. Two of her own younger siblings are married already, with her blessing, but still… if anyone deserved a special simchah, it was Chava.
“They want to keep the engagement as short as possible,” Sarah told me the next day. “They’ve waited long enough for this, and if they don’t get married before the Three Weeks, it means waiting almost another month, and then mid-summer is not a great time, because so many people are away…”
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