in Judaism....  

 

(neat!) story: 

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/faith_values/stories/2008/09/05/OrthodoxJewish.ART_ART_09-05-08_B6_7GB563B.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

 

with this paragraph especially interesting, I thought:

 

Inside the synagogue, the couple's mothers held the train of Jennifer's dress as she circled Brian seven times under the chuppah, or wedding canopy. Seven is a number of completeness in Judaism.

 

..... as in "7 years" of tribulation ~ to totally COMPLETE that era of mankind ~ and this is also the time (7 years) that we'll be INSIDE the wedding chambers!!   See Is. 26:20-21

 

:)

Reva