Wedding Musician's Plea: Keep Celebrations Safe

Wedding musician Yechiel Greenberg is making an emotional appeal to those dancing at weddings and other celebrations to refrain from performing stunts that endanger the participants, including the guests of honor.

Recently, a video surfaced online showing the fall of a Bar Mitzvah boy, Noam Shmuel ben Simcha, whom the attendees lifted to perform a wild dance stunt that, unfortunately, ended with a serious head injury.

The video was removed at the family's request.

Following the video, veteran wedding musician Yechiel Greenberg published an emotional post urging celebrants and dancers to take it easy and protect the participants' well-being.

Here's what Greenberg wrote in this important post that touches us all:

"I have to tell you something important that has been burning within me for years, and I've somehow postponed and ignored, maybe because I feared sounding like the killjoy of the events industry. Every evening, I sit on stage watching the tricks and flips guys are doing with the groom.

Well, believe me, we've already seen grooms fall and miraculously get up smiling, and you've seen the grim sights on the verge of disaster yourselves. Surely.

But every night when they bounce the groom on the cloth, and I watch from the stage how he rapidly approaches the floor, only to rise back up by some miracle, sometimes just four inches shy of a crash landing on his tailbone and, God forbid, being paralyzed for life...

Oh. At this stage, I always close my eyes, and I get the chills!

So we have a regular practice where Yaron warns on the microphone: stretch tight, stretch!!

But every day, I'm terrified!

And what about the flips where all the guys stand in two lines, and the groom leaps onto them from the stage. Have you tried that? Thought about the possible consequences...?

I have an old friend who was a prominent wedding singer, and he took a hit at his own wedding... I think he even went to the ER but not sure about it,

and there's a father at the only wedding we performed with Avraham Fried, and five minutes into the dance, he cut his head open from a long-shot camera and rushed to the hospital, and believe me, there are more stories.

Alright, so accidents happen, but why add more risks to them by our daily initiative and intention???

And why did I wake up? Because I just saw a video shared by Shuki Sheinfeld from a Bar Mitzvah where the groom fell on his head and was hospitalized with suspected concussion. If you're inclined, visit his wall and see it. Friends, please!!!"

For the full recovery of Noam Shmuel ben Simcha, the public is requested to recite the following Psalms:

Psalm 1

[א a series of psalms and prayers follows in Hebrew thoroughly presented in the original text]