RE: dance of death

[Jack Falk \(E-mail\) <jackfalk...>]

I'm told that this is a Sephardic tradition from Salonika,
in commemoration of Greek Independence Day.


-----Original Message-----
From: r l reid [mailto:ro (at) panix(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:49 AM

As long as we're on the evolution of dance and wedding minhag -

Today, at the point where it's time to take the chasen to the kallah,
the mothers-in-law-to-be come into the men's room and break a dish
together.

Is this by chance an abbreviated form of the broyges tantz?
Or does it serve another purpose entirely?

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