To Tzippi: You are right, the whole buying an apt. here in Eretz Yisrael is not normal, but there are plenty of people (mostly Americans) who manage without it, they either help their kids buy in the Negev or some other cheaper area, or they rent, etc. With that said, wouldn’t you rather spend the money having your kids settled than on a wedding which, as I said in my previous post is not much more than a license to live as man and wife, and ends after a few hours. There are many happily married couples who twenty years later cannot tell you details of their wedding. Unfortunately there are those who twenty years later remember the debt. So if you must live in Brooklyn, follow the Eretz Yisrael style – seudah just for family and a few others, with a buffet (no meat) for those who come later to dance, those who come are truly interested in being mesameach chosson vekallah.
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