{"id":2135,"date":"2008-07-29T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/07\/recommitment-ceremony-for-madg.html"},"modified":"2008-07-29T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T12:33:17","slug":"recommitment-ceremony-for-madg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/07\/recommitment-ceremony-for-madg.html","title":{"rendered":"Recommitment Ceremony for Madge and Guy During &#8216;Shabbat of Consolation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madonnaandguypicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/madonnaandguypicforic.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>First a bit of Jewish education:<br \/>\nShabbat Nachamu, the &#8220;Sabbath of Consolation,&#8221; comes the weekend after the Jewish holiday of Tisha B&#8217;Av, a day of mourning and fasting commemorating the destruction of the Temple. There&#8217;s a special synagogue service that includes songs of mourning and the reading of the book of Eichah, which describes the wreckage resulting from the destruction of the Holy Temple.<br \/>\nTisha B&#8217;Av (the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av) itself is preceded by three weeks of limited mourning&#8211;while it&#8217;s not a period of fasting, religious Jews may refrain from seeking out live entertainment, and during the last nine days before the fast day, will likely not eat meat as a sign of the restriction of happiness. For traditional single Jews, the Shabbat after Tisha B&#8217;Av often brings summer singles retreats weekend, as after mourning, there&#8217;s a drive to find things to celebrate. Got it? Good&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd now, the celebrity angle: As vegetarians, Madonna and Guy Ritchie aren&#8217;t going to miss the meat of the three weeks. And since they&#8217;re practitioners of Kabbalah, which isn&#8217;t to say that they&#8217;re Jewish, they&#8217;re likely not fasting on Tisha B&#8217;Av either. (In fact, model Naomi Campbell recently said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/article\/campbell%20compares%20kabbalah%20to%20rehab%20program_1075597\" target=\"_blank\">Kabbalah is more of a rehab-style program, like Alcoholics Anonymous, <\/a> than it is a religion.) But the celebrity supercouple is taking consolation in the fact that they&#8217;ll reportedly be renewing their marriage vows over Shabbat Nachamu (according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/news\/celebrity\/268097\/madonna-and-guy-kabbalah-commitment-ceremony.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marie Claire UK<\/a>, among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/showbiz\/bizarre\/article1472513.ece#OTC-RSS&amp;ATTR=Bizarre\" target=\"_blank\">other places<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMadonna and Guy&#8217;s vows will be witnessed by family and friends at their Ashcome estate in Wiltshire and two rabbi friends are also flying in from New York for the ceremony.<br \/>\nOne insider revealed: &#8216;They have a special Shabbat party in August, which they want to do once a year to declare their feelings for each other.<br \/>\n&#8216;It&#8217;s a very important dinner for them&#8211; they want everyone to know they are still in love.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope that the final sentence of the vows reads, &#8220;True blue, baby I love you.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/madonna\/33056\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/madonna\/33056\/351x85_standard.gif\" alt=\"Madonna at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First a bit of Jewish education: Shabbat Nachamu, the &#8220;Sabbath of Consolation,&#8221; comes the weekend after the Jewish holiday of Tisha B&#8217;Av, a day of mourning and fasting commemorating the destruction of the Temple. There&#8217;s a special synagogue service that includes songs of mourning and the reading of the book of Eichah, which describes the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recommitment Ceremony for Madge and Guy During &#039;Shabbat of Consolation&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/07\/recommitment-ceremony-for-madg.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recommitment Ceremony for Madge and Guy During &#039;Shabbat of Consolation&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First a bit of Jewish education: Shabbat Nachamu, the &#8220;Sabbath of Consolation,&#8221; comes the weekend after the Jewish holiday of Tisha B&#8217;Av, a day of mourning and fasting commemorating the destruction of the Temple. 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