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===Panim Chadashot=== | ===Panim Chadashot=== | ||
# In order to recite all 7 berachot, one must invite someone who did not attend either the wedding or a previous sheva berachot. <ref> Gemara Ketubot 7b. | # In order to recite all 7 berachot, one must invite someone who did not attend either the wedding or a previous sheva berachot. <ref> Gemara Ketubot 7b. See [http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/477370/jewish/Panim-Chadashot-New-Faces.htm Panim Chadashot New Faces on chabad.org]. </ref> While some poskim require that the panim chadashot be given a setting, others are more lenient; the minhag is to be lenient and allow calling in a stranger or waiter to count as panim chadashot. <ref> Nitei Gavriel Hilchot Nisuin 2:87:1 </ref> | ||
# The Panim Chadashot can come even in the middle or towards the end of the meal.<ref>Nitai Gavriel (Nesuin vol. 2, 86:3)</ref> | # The Panim Chadashot can come even in the middle or towards the end of the meal.<ref>Nitai Gavriel (Nesuin vol. 2, 86:3)</ref> | ||
# A woman cannot count as a panim chadashot.<ref> Nitei Gavriel Nissuin 87:3 </ref> | # A woman cannot count as a panim chadashot.<ref> Nitei Gavriel Nissuin 87:3 </ref> | ||
# A child cannot count as panim chadashot.<ref> Nitei Gavriel Nissuin 87:4</ref> | # A child cannot count as panim chadashot.<ref> Nitei Gavriel Nissuin 87:4</ref> | ||
# While many poskim hold that panim chadashot means only one new person, some hold that two are required.<ref>The Chelkat Mechokek EH 62:9 writes that you only need one new person for panim chadashot. This is also the opinion of the Aruch Hashulchan 62:24. Yabia Omer EH 3:11:2 is strict for the Rav Avraham Ben HaRambam (teshuva 86 and 110) in explaining the Rambam that two people are necessary.</ref> | |||
==Second Marriages== | ==Second Marriages== |