Inside the ancient traditions involved in a Yemenite wedding celebration.
ceremony is performed. Just as the name suggests, the ritual involves the application of temporary natural dye to the hands of the bride in intricate patterns that symbolize fertility. The crowning glory of her look, which comes in vibrant red—also to symbolize fertility—and gold, is a majestic beaded headdress, or, that is in the shape of a cone and resembles a tiered cake. The headpiece weighs more than two pounds. But that isn’t the heaviest part: That’s where the jewelry comes in.
Where the weddings themselves tend to draw huge crowds, these ceremonies are a much more intimate affair, with a small group of female family members gathered to sing to the bride-to-be. “They are delivering the daughter away from her parents’ home. They sound happy but they are singing, ‘Don’t cry child,’ ” says Tsur. “It [the song’s meaning] is also sad, but because Yemenite are happy people; we make it into a party.
Tsur, who is tour guide and a third-generation Yemenite on both sides of her family, met her husband Ahivu Tsur, an engineer who is half-Iraqi and half-Eastern European, over ten years ago at a mutual friend’s gathering. Tsur and Tsur then added each other on Facebook, and four years later when Tsur updated her picture, he reached out. The rest is history. Tsur’s mother had long wanted to have ain my mind,’ says Tsur.
Currently, there are only a handful of Yemenite Jews left in Yemen and the majority live in Israel. Between 1948 and 1950, 50,000 were airlifted to Israel during operation “Magic Carpet,” joining the estimated 50,000 who already lived there. Many of those who remained left following a series of extremist attacks on the small community—as of 2020, the count in Yemen was 40. When Yemenites immigrated to Israel, their traditions changed as they sought to assimilate with modern Israeli society.
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