Now that it's over, the details can be told. Netayah and Techiyah Fruman were married yesterday on the Temple Mount - and later in the evening held a "do-over" wedding ceremony with hundreds of guests in Jerusalem. A participant in both ceremonies told Arutz-7 this morning what happened . . .
Those details are here. But what's especially fascinating about this story is that Netayah Fruman is the son of Rabbi Menachem Fruman (of the West Bank "settlement" of Tekoah) who was present at both ceremonies and apparently officiated at the later one. Rabbi Fruman, you may recall, is, well, the guy on the right.
That photo was taken in March. There's a similar one here, from last December. So this Rabbi Fruman (or Froman) is quite a character.
Meanwhile, reaction on the part of the Muslim religious guardians who are currently running the show on the Temple Mount was more or less predictable.
Moslem Waqf officials said that there was no wedding on the Temple Mount yesterday, but that if there was, "this will storm the entire world, and the Jewish extremist government will bear the responsibility for this grave act, if it happened."
Oh, and the title of this post, in case you're wondering, is the beginning of a beautiful song, taken from Jeremiah 33:10-11, which the wedding party sang as they came down from Har HaBayit:
Od yishama be’harey Yehuda
uv’chutzot Yerushala’yim.
Kol sason vekol simcha,
kol chatan vekol kala
kol mitzhahlot chataniym m'chuppatahm
Again there shall be heard in this place..
In the cities of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem...
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,
the jubilant voice of bridegrooms from the canopies
To which I would add, tonight, that also again is there heard in this place, in the neighborhoods of Manhattan and in the streets of New York, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness... And may it never be silenced again.
Shabbat Shalom.
