What did Sheri Roth answer: How does a woman feel surrounded by 10,000 men? Watch

8 June 2023   

Raviv Drucker: These pictures captured my attention as a layman... How does a woman feel surrounded by 10,000 men? What is it, Sherry Roth? What is this thing? Sherry Roth: I'll tell you what you want to say and you don't... Drucker: I usually say what I want to say... Sherry: And yet. You want to say, what kind of woman is this, that they covered her, and she's afraid to even say, 'Leave me alone with this covering.' You're painting... Drucker: Would you have stood there? Explain the event. Nobody understood the event. It's in the Jerusalem Arena, a hall that seats 10,000 or 12,000, something like that. It looks full, everyone is jumping and getting excited, because what's going on? Explain... Sari: This is a Hasidic custom, this is the wedding of the grandson of the Rebbe of Bezla, there is a Hasidic custom there, in the Lithuanian community, with us, they don't practice it, but I know how to respect the customs of others and not look at this woman like that. Druker: But what is the custom? Explain. Sari: The bride dances with the groom, there is a dance with the Rebbe, with the help of a thread. Now, so that the audience can't see her face, they cover her. And Raviv, don't say 'what a poor thing, they covered her', and 'she's humiliated'... Druker: She's humiliated, Sari. Sari: She's been dreaming about it since she was a child. She's humiliated now, because we're talking about her, here. But she's been dreaming about it since she was a child. Druker: She's been dreaming about it since she was a child?? Sari: Yes, it's her dream come true... yes. Baruch Kara: Here, Sherry, I'm with you, finally... She is not humiliated in any way, that's the custom... Drucker: How do you know? Kara: I don't know, but you don't know that she is humiliated either. Drucker: I'm using common sense. And someone who is covered in public, in front of ten thousand people and she doesn't even witness what's happening... and they can't see her face, she is humiliated. Sara: No, Raviv, it's possible that your grandmother, or your grandmother's grandmother, was in such a situation. Drucker: No, no, no, I apologize, grandmother, that you had to go through this. Kara: I'm saying two things: One - she is not humiliated, that's the custom of this specific Hasidic forum, they have many customs, in different forms. There may be something in her heart and we don't know it, but there's no reason to assume that she is humiliated. The second thing: If we had jumped in the arena, in a game against Hapoel Tel Aviv, like that, there's a chance we would have won... Drucker: Okay, you managed to close it out, in a very strange way...