Danan, who died last month aged 46, explained how he had wished to get married in the Aben Danan Synagogue in Fes, Morocco, where only members of his family were allowed to do so, while speaking on the Outlet Ten Discussions mental health podcast. He said: “My great, great, great, great grandfather, we have a museum, he was the chief rabbi of Morocco. “He was unbelievable, and we’re related to this prophet, and his name is the Rambam.
“He was a lawyer, a psychiatrist, something like a doctor, and all these other things. “But he was also a bit cheeky, he did whatever he did to get things, and we’re talking like hundreds of years ago, but to be related to him is the most incredible thing. “So when I see a rabbi and they know I’m related, they literally bow down to me, and I’m like ‘what are you doing?'” Danan went on to explain that he was invited to a rabbi’s home in Golders Green in London, where he put on a dinner in honour of him.
He continued: “I went to the Danan synagogue, and I asked them there, I said, ‘if I found someone, could I get married here?’, because it’s not a place for people to get married. “And he went, ‘because you’re Danan you can’, and I thought to myself ‘one day, if I do meet (a girl), I’m going to bring her here, we’re going to get married at this synagogue’. “Because, oh my god, it’s like a museum, it’s incredible, and it’s all my favourite colour, like a turquoise blue.
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