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I wonder how they twisted the candles


Alpo

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In the movie FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The wedding, between the milkman's oldest daughter and the tailor. Everybody is carrying this candle that is actually two candles twisted or braided together. I suppose this is to symbolize two people that are now one married couple.

 

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Now if this is just something they dreamed up for the movie, well heck, they could make up a candle like that all kinds of strange ways.

 

But if this is actually Russian Jewish tradition - if they really did this in the 1900s - how did they twist the candles?

 

 

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23 hours ago, Alpo said:

In the movie FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The wedding, between the milkman's oldest daughter and the tailor. Everybody is carrying this candle that is actually two candles twisted or braided together. I suppose this is to symbolize two people that are now one married couple.

 

Fiddler-On-The-Roof-Wedding-5.jpg

 

Now if this is just something they dreamed up for the movie, well heck, they could make up a candle like that all kinds of strange ways.

 

But if this is actually Russian Jewish tradition - if they really did this in the 1900s - how did they twist the candles?

 

 

Very carefully.  VERY carefully!!!

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