Marrying the Rabbi’s Son
MEIRAV SAT AMONG FEMALE kin and friends at her reception. Tradition provided for this segregated moment before she walked down the aisle.
Mom adjusted Meirav’s veil. Her soon-to-be mother-in-law posed for the photography matron.
Behind the music, Meirav heard the incessant drumming of rain on the hall’s windows. Precipitation was a good sign, a foretoken of fertility. She let out a sigh.
So many girls had wanted to marry the rabbi’s son, but Eldad Glickson, “Eli” to his friends, had special reasons for choosing her. Besides, it was understood that he would continue to learn Torah after they wed and that she, a newly minted optician, would work to support the family.
Yet, Meirav had not received any responses from the eyewear shops to which she had applied, inc
