Rabbi David Romy, a son of deaf parents, took on a mission: to marry couples with sign language. “With all the joy, it saddens me a lot that they do not hear the sound of the broken glass”
Nina Fox
Ynet
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In the past, deaf people were discriminated against by religion, marriage, and kiddushin because of the text that a fool, deaf and small are exempt from mitzvot. Today, in the wake of Rabbi David Rumi and the Shma’ye Association, who fought a lot for the equality of the deaf and the rabbinate.
“Every time I met deaf people,” he says, “they would say to me,` Why am I a B and not A like everyone else, like all the listeners? ‘I would answer them,’ Do not worry, I am with G-d’s help. Israel, we will change this thing, and we have succeeded, and in writing it is no longer mentioned as deafness as in the past, they receive a regular Ketubah from all the Rabbinate in Israel.
Thus, Rabbi Romi meets the groom about two months before the wedding and teaches him about family purity, Shalom Beit, Nida and of course goes with him on the entire subject of the wedding ceremony. “I let him understand and read the verse many times, ‘You are sanctified to me in this ring as the religion of Moses and Israel’ It is very important that he say this pronunciation because only then the bride can understand what he says and then the canopy comes out properly.
So how does it actually work? As mentioned, Romy uses his hands to speak sign language and therefore uses the device “Madonna”. “I come with a Madonna device because I speak to them in sign language, I have to show my hands and my lips, I speak slowly and Madonna is connected to amplification, and all the audience and guests hear me and they understand me in sign language.”
Although the happy couple does not hear, there is still a chuppah song: “Everyone has a song to enter the wedding canopy, and the interpreter or interpreter demonstrates it in a very tangible and beautiful way. “A lot of the audience comes up to me and says, ‘Wow, it’s a chilling experience.'” It still saddens me that they do not hear the sound of the broken glass, but that’s their fate.
Photo: Rabbi David Rumei is a bridegroom. No second class (Photo: Tal Shimoni)
When I was little, it was hard for me to understand why I was born to deaf parents, but today when I know what my mission is in this world – to come and spread the word,” he said. I understand that this is a very big mission if I had the opportunity and I would come in a lifetime, I would marry my parents with joy, really, “concludes the rabbi.
