Anonymous

Sheva Brachot: Difference between revisions

From Halachipedia
No edit summary
Line 44: Line 44:
===Who Needs to Eat Bread===
===Who Needs to Eat Bread===
# The accepted psak is that Sheva Brachos are recited only after a meal of bread, after Birkas Hamazon<ref> Maseches Sofrim 19:11 implies otherwise, but the Tur and Shulchan Aruch 62:5 indicate that only after a meal should Sheva Brachos be recited, and this is the ruling of the Aruch Hashulchan 62:26. See Yabia Omer 3:11:6 and Sefer Hanisuin K'Hilchatan p. 512 who write even Mezonos would be insufficient.</ref>
# The accepted psak is that Sheva Brachos are recited only after a meal of bread, after Birkas Hamazon<ref> Maseches Sofrim 19:11 implies otherwise, but the Tur and Shulchan Aruch 62:5 indicate that only after a meal should Sheva Brachos be recited, and this is the ruling of the Aruch Hashulchan 62:26. See Yabia Omer 3:11:6 and Sefer Hanisuin K'Hilchatan p. 512 who write even Mezonos would be insufficient.</ref>
# Ideally, at least ten of the attendees should eat bread.<ref>  Shut Shoel U’Meishiv Telisa’ah 1:198, Yabia Omer EH 3:11:6</ref> However, many poskim allow Sheva Brachos to be said if only seven people ate bread, and some even permit Sheva Brachos to be said if only three people ate bread, as long as there is a minyan in attendance.<Ref>See Pischei Teshuva 62:8, Nitai Gavriel, Nesuin 102:2, Yabia Omer EH 3:11:6, and Otzar Haposkim 62:25:5</ref> Either way, the (bride and) groom themselves should have eaten bread.<ref> Yabia Omer 6:10:9, Tzitz Eliezer 13:99:4, Otzar Haposkim 62:25:6</ref>
# Ideally, at least ten of the attendees should eat bread.<ref>  Shut Shoel U’Meishiv Telisa’ah 1:198, Yabia Omer EH 3:11:6, Yalkut Yosef (Sova Semachot 1:16:4)</ref> However, many poskim allow Sheva Brachos to be said if only seven people ate bread, and some even permit Sheva Brachos to be said if only three people ate bread, as long as there is a minyan in attendance.<Ref>See Pischei Teshuva 62:8, Nitai Gavriel, Nesuin 102:2, Yabia Omer EH 3:11:6, and Otzar Haposkim 62:25:5</ref> Either way, the (bride and) groom themselves should have eaten bread.<ref> Yabia Omer 6:10:9, Tzitz Eliezer 13:99:4, Otzar Haposkim 62:25:6</ref>


==Second Marriages==
==Second Marriages==