Viva la Difference

It's always dangerous to generalize along gender lines, but sometimes something jumps out at you that can't be ignored (and simply must be shared).

Take for example the wedding Zahava and I attended last night at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem.  The ceremony had separate seating, so it was fairly easy to observe the difference between the way the men and women were reacting to what was going on around them.

For the most part the women sat in reverent silence, memorizing every detail from the trim on the brides gown to the color of the flowers in the beautiful arrangements... and then occasionally to architectural accents of the sanctuary.

The men were a bit more restless and I watched in amusement as their glances shifted from the sound system components to the musicians playing the music... and then over to the uniform insignias on the large group of soldiers present from the groom's army unit.

I glanced over towards my wife to see if I could catch her eye, but she was sitting between couple of friends... all of them staring in rapt attention towards the Chupa (wedding canopy).

Just then I felt my phone vibrate.  I surreptitiously took it out and saw that I had a text message waiting to be read.  It was from a friend who was also attending the wedding but who was seated elsewhere.  His message:

"If you have a direct shot, take it.  :-)"

And no, I didn't have a camera with me.  It was simply a sarcastic/cynical joke between two married men at a wedding.  While our wives sat side by side soaking up every detail of the ceremony... we were making childish jokes about how to 'save' this bachelor from a life of wedded bliss.

Viva la Difference!