Wedding
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Making the Bride and Groom Happy
- It is a great mitzvah to rejoice with the bride and groom at their wedding[1]
- The poskim discuss different ways of being able to enhance the simcha of the chattan and kallah:
- Some poskim say that one should be sure to dance with the chattan or kallah.[2]
- Some poskim say that in order to fulfill one's obligation, he should make sure to say Mazel Tov.[3]
- Others argue that simply showing up at the wedding is enough because it makes the chattan and kallah happy that more people attended their wedding.[4]
- Others say that one fulfills his obligation by giving a gift.[5]
Chuppah
Circling the Chosson
- The custom is that the circle is that the kallah walks around the chosson seven times under the chuppa.[6]
Wearing a Tallit under the Chuppah
- Some Sephardim have the practice for the Chatan to put on a Tallit during the Kiddushin and then place it over the Chatan and Kallah during the Sheva Brachot.[7]
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Sources
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch EH 65:1. see Rambam Hilchot Avel 14:1 and Sdei Chemed Chatan viKallah 13.
Pirkei Direbbi Eliezer 12 states that Hashem Himself rejoiced with Adam and Chava at their wedding in Gan Eden. Rabbenu Yona writes in Shaare Teshuva 4:11 adds that performing this mitzvah protects one from pain - ↑ Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Sefer Shalmei Simcha page 310) rules that rabbis, dignitaries, and close friends of the chattan fulfill their obligation merely by attending the wedding but others should dance until they feel that the chattan is made happy by their actions
- ↑ Rav Chaim Kanievsky (Yismach Lev 251)
- ↑ Rav Elyashiv (Yismach Lev 251)
- ↑ Shulchan Haezer (vol. 2 page 72)
- ↑ Kitzur S"A 147:5. Shulchan Haezer 7:4 writes that some have the custom to circle around 3 times
- ↑ Ben Ish Chai (Shoftim year 1, n. 12), Yalkut Yosef (Sova Semachot 1:6:10), Nitai Gavriel (Nesuin v. 1, 18:10)
