Friends and loved ones bid a tearful farewell yesterday to the groom who jumped from a Brooklyn hotel room window just two days after his wedding.
“You know what it is for a father to be at his son’s wedding and then to be here,” said Shmuel Borger, the father of 24-year-old suicide victim Motty Borger. “This wedding was not in vain. It was not in vain. From sadness will come happiness.”
Motty’s widow, Mali, arrived on her mother’s arm for the ceremony at the Shomrei Hachomos funeral home in Brooklyn.
Borger plunged seven stories from a balcony at the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Borough Park at 6:45 a.m. Thursday. His wife, who had married him at a lavish Williamsburg ceremony two days earlier, was asleep nearby.
“I was in the hospital last night and Mali asked me, ‘Do you think it’s the evil eye after having such a beautiful wedding?’ ” her father, Avraham Gutman, told the mourners.
He said he replied, “It is what God wanted.”
Some refused to believe it was suicide. Rabbi Moishe Mayer Weiss said Borger may have gone onto the balcony for air and gotten disoriented. Sources close to the probe told The Post that there was no way he could have fallen without deliberate action.