Even the celebration of a bar/bas-mitzvah or wedding, a ray of light in the lives of stricken families of Zeh LaZeh is anticipated with anxiety. How will the widow cover the expenses of a basic bar mitzvah celebration and buy tefillin for her son; how will she equip her daughter the kallah with the basic necessities to start her new home and kit out her out for the wedding. Who will help her pay for the simplest celebration so that the kallah will feel like a Queen on this special day? Who will pay for the chassan's suit, hat, shoes and personal items for his wedding? Where will the money come from to pay for the myriad of expenses for different members of the family who finally have a chance to experience real joy. The chassan, the kallah, the brothers and sisters, and last but not least the widow herself deserves to look her best as she sheps nachas. Zeh LaZeh ensures that their simcha is complete and undertakes to accomplish that each and every one of the family members shine at the simcha.
Rebbetzin Rottenberg makes an effort to participate in each and every one of Zeh LaZeh's family simchas. She is quick to pick up on all the finer details and likes to arrive early to check that everything is up to standard.
On the last day of Chanukah she arrived at a wedding before the Chuppah and noticed that the mother of the bride, the widow, her "sister" the machateineste was wearing no jewelry.
She quickly sent someone out to one of Yerushalayim's jewelry stores to buy some pearls. The jeweler said that he had no finished necklaces, but could supply her with loose pearls, so the Rebbetzin made some calls and arranged for a group of girls to string the loose pearls right away. An hour later her sister the machateineste walked her daughter down to the chuppah as majestically as any other mother of the kallah!
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