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Jewish weddings involve a series of traditions that begin a week prior to the ceremony and culminate in a post wedding celebration.
Jewish custom requires the bride (called a kallah) and the groom (chatan) to refrain from seeing each other for the whole week preceding the wedding. A tad longer than the traditional night before the wedding separation that is common to Christian weddings.
Guests at the Christian wedding eagerly anticipate the bride’s walk down the aisle. The bride strolls down the aisle on the arm of her father, to the accompaniment of music; while the groom awaits her at the altar; In contrast, the Jewish bride receives her guests from a “throne”, while her groom is serenaded and toasted by guests in a separate area.
It is Jewish tradition for the kallah and chatan’s mothers to stand together at the beginning of the ceremony for a plate breaking. This act symbolizes the graveness of marriage-both a broken plate and a broken marriage are irreparable.
After the plate breaking, the chatan places a veil over the kallah’s face, as a symbol of modesty. Then the bride and groom are accompanied by their parents to the marriage canopy (chuppah), with the chatan leading. The chuppah represents the new home that the Jewish couple will build. God created the world in seven days; therefore, Jewish tradition dictates that the kallah walk in a circle around the chatan seven times before she takes her place to the right of him.
Following the circling, the rabbi recites a blessing and the couple then drinks from a shared wine cup.
The groom then puts a ring on the right hand of his bride, if the groom is to receive a ring, he does not receive at this time.
Instead of repeating traditional marriage vows or reciting their own vows after the ring exchange, a marriage contract (ketubah) is read. The ketubah details the chatan’s responsibilities to his wife.
The Jewish wedding ceremony marks its conclusion with The Seven Blessings recited by the rabbi, the couple drinking from the wine cup again, and the finale of the chatan breaking a glass underfoot.
The Jewish wedding ceremony is a very important part of the Jewish culture and is steeped in symbolic rituals/traditions that show how seriously marriage is to be taken.
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