The Chasunah of Ruchie Meyer, daughter of Rabbi & Mrs. Yankie Meyer, noted Askan & founder of Misaskim, to Yitzy Schwartz, son of Mr. & Mrs. Yossie Schwartz of Flatbush, will take place on Wednesday evening.
The wedding was scheduled for Monday evening in Ateres Chaya Hall in Boro Park, but after consulting with leading Poskim, the Chasunah has been moved to Wednesday evening – due to Pikuach Nefashos. Last night during the blizzard, hundreds of people were stranded at weddings and Bar Mitzvah’s in Brooklyn, and hundreds in Lakewood. People slept in their cars, in halls, and others walked miles in the storm to get home.
“Mi Kiamcha Yisroel” R’ Yankie Meyer told YWN.
“Quite a few caterers called me this morning and offered their own cooks just in case the hall’s cooks were unable to work today.”
The wedding will take place on Wednesday evening, December 29th 2010, at Ateres Chaya Hall. Reception at 6:30m Chupah at 7:30, and Simchas Chosson V’Kallah at 10:00.
If you know anyone who was invited to this wedding, please let them know.
(Dov Gordon – YWN)
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17 Responses
Why just THIS Chasuna?
I understand that there is a policy to not delay a wedding. But even so, why would this need a p’sak? If it’s dangerous to get to hold the wedding, postpone it. common sense should be sufficient.
What should and should not be common sense also requires a p’sak.
cantoresq:
What upsets you greatly about us Jews consulting a posek before doing whatever we feel like?
Cantoresq,
What’s with that comment? I don’t get where that’s coming from. You totally threw me off
#1 is right! How come only this wedding is postponed!! Its just as dangerous to get to all other simchas too!
My brothers wedding was also called for monday night and it is being talked about if it should be postponed
What may be different with this Chasunah, is the fact the “Father of the Bride” is R’ Yankie Meyer – someone who has helped thousands of people, many of whom feel Hakoras Hatov and may want to attend, despite the danger.
i heard about a few others that are pushed off!!!! dont know specific names but this is not the only 1!! very smart idea to post it in a place where a lot of ppl will see it!
In Yerushalayim where I live, it does not snow often. Generally, if there is so much as an inch of snow, the entire city just about comes to a standstill. Cars simply are not equipped with chains and snow tires because there rarely is a need for it. Nineteen years ago was the last time that there were a couple of really huge snowstorms. At that time, a wedding was scheduled to take place and it was not pushed off! It took place in a local Yeshiva’s hall right next to the kallah’s home. The chosson and his immediate family (parents and siblings) were brought over in an emergency vehicle. The kallah’s wedding gown was not stored in her home and was not accessible. Someone volunteered to get her a make-do gown by trekking to a nearby neighborhood, but she preferred getting married in her own sheva-brachos outfit rather than someone else’s gown that was not a proper fit. Their chuppah and kiddushin were just as kosher as in a big hall, the neighbors put together a seudah and that was that! Nor oif simchas.
I had a wedding last night in Terrace on the Park. we were stranded till the morning on the highway! i arrived home this morning.
Mazel Tov!! I am so happy to hear this wedding has been postponed so all the esteemed guests can now attend. I know the Myere mishpacha is very well known and rightfully so for all the chesed that they do, but let me tell you a little about the Schwartz side. This is a family that is built on Torah and yiras shomayim where every stranger who knocks on their door is immediately welcome with open arms. A yidisha mama like Mrs. Schwartz are very few in number. The zchus of the family rests on her shoulders and the tehilim that never leaves her hands. How lucky the Meyers are to unite with this choshuv family. May they only have nachas from the young couple and share in many more simchas together.
Rabbi Meyer wouldn’t do a single move without daas torah, and simply put he is involved and feels with every issue in our midst including those stranded, for him its not an article in the news it means dealing with it. May he be zoche to only participate in simchos in all of klall yisroel and most importantly his own family simchas. One point, KOL HABOREIACH MIN HAKAVOD holds so true here, after all his efforts to conceal himself from his chesed, here it is announced in the news as a MUST to get the word out about the posponement. Rabbi Meyer don’t let it bother you, chazal stated that the kovod will catch up with those. Mazel Tov
We were returning from a wedding in Terrace on the Park
got stranded a couple of times then on Court st and Dougless ave. there was a city bus, sanitation truck, police car, car service, sanitation truck, us with 6 passengers in the car squashed like sardines, behind us another sanitation truck, police car and a couple of cars we were sitting there nothing moving for “6-1/2 hours” left the hall 11:20 stepped into my house 7:10
the interesting part of it was that no one wanted to leave their cars to give a push to the other cars once everyone realized that we can sit there forever they started budging (sanitation and police closed their lights and chapped a nap all this time on the taxpayers dollars -they are getting paid overtime and not working)
If there would be yidden there we would have been home a couple of hours earlier – Chaverim Kol Yisroel
There were buses, cars stranded on every block on the way an unbelieveable sight
This is a wedding that will be remembere – can go into the History books!
Common sense does not need a psak, it never did. But it seems that the sense is none to common these days, thus the need for such “piskei Halacha.”
May this be the last thing the chosson and kallah have to wait for only simchas nachs parnasa children and harchovas hadas
On a side note we feel so bad for this choson having to wait for his kallah what about the shechinah that’s waiting for his kallah kinesses yiroel and it keeps on getting postponed imagine the pain of the shechinah
Let’s all be mekabel to do an extra chesed for someone (maybe even someone we don’t like so much)and hopefully hashem will do the biggest chessed with us and bring the geulah speedily in our days
Cantor,
Judaism doesn’t work with common-sense, it works with Torah-sense. Common-sense can be defined many ways in every situation, Torah-sense [usually] has only one way (Eilu Veilu Divrei Elokim Chaim…). The severity of pushing off a wedding is well-known. The Seforim warn against the ramifications and “dangers” of pushing off a set date of marriage between a couple. They state that a wedding date is destined from above and shouldn’t be changed even in dire circumstances. Obviously, one that follows Torah-sense at every step of his life would heed a Rabbi’s advice in this case as well.
Additionally, although I won’t elaborate (Taharas HaMishpacha) Halachic issues do come up under such circumstances. Halachic authority usually should be consulted.
At last, the way things look like now, they might want to push off the wedding. Bloomberg says that the NYC government is at work, but I say the bureaucracy might be working but the CITY isn’t. Baruch Hashem Rudy was in charge on 9/11…