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In Judea they allowed the bridegroom and bride private company one hour before the wedding; but they did not so in Galilee. It was a custom in Judea that the married persons should have two friends, one of the family of the bridegroom, and the other of the family of the bride: but it was not so in Galilee.
Since ancient times, Jewish brides have been wearing veils. The Mishnah (completed in the second century) records the custom of some Jewish brides to wear a veil. 1 But in truth, the custom is even older than that, predating the Jewish people as we know it.
- Yehuda Shurpin
The technical term for this situation is chalitzah, or levirate marriage. Only when Tamar's pregnancy becomes public does she reveal her identity as the veiled woman to Judah and expose his role in the pregnancy. In the first instance, the veil signifies Rebekah's modesty and preparation for marriage.
The bride, at her first marriage, traditionally wears white as a sign of purity on the wedding day, which is considered to be a day of repentance and forgiveness. It also indicates that she has practiced the purification rites of mikvah before the wedding.
- Maurice Lamm
- Rabbinic Formulations and Requirements
- How Many Blessings?
- The Communal Role in Weddings and Mourning
- Solomon’s Two Gates: Mourners and Grooms
- An Opportunity For Communal Kindness
- The Six Blessings
Evidently, in the late Second Temple period, some Jews introduced a benediction acknowledging God for bringing together the first couple, Adam and Eve, thus making all future marriages possible. The Tobit story suggests that the marriage blessing was recited privately and was independent of any celebratory meal. Once the rabbis enter the picture, w...
The Babylonian Talmud relates a brief anecdote about a third-century Palestinian sage named Levi, who reportedly once recited five blessings, and another about a fifth-century Babylonian sage name Rav Ittai,who recited six blessings: The practice of reciting six blessings was recorded earlier in the Talmud in the name of the second-generation Babyl...
The Jerusalem Talmud states that both the seven days of mourning and the seven days of wedding celebration were instituted by Moses: While wedding celebrations and grieving for the dead might seem unrelated, for the rabbis each afforded people an opportunity to participate: In the case of a wedding, they serve as gladdeners,in the case of a death, ...
A post-Talmudic midrashic collection from the Land of Israel,Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer, relates (ch. 17) that Solomon built two gates on the Temple mount, one for grooms and the other for mourners. On Shabbat, people would gather between the gates כְּדֵי שֶׁיֵּצְאוּ כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל יְדֵי חוֹבָתָן בִּגְמִילוּת חֲסָדִים “so that all of Israelwould fulfi...
Long before the rabbis, the people of Israel celebrated a marriage with a weeklong feast. In the Second Temple Period, some Jews introduced blessings that acknowledged God for his creation of humankind, which allowed for the bringing together of future brides and grooms. Subsequently, other blessings were introduced. Eventually, the rabbis would st...
Below is the contemporary text of the Sheva Berakhot. It is almost identical to the Babylonian Talmud’s version, which differs slightly depending on the manuscript. (In modern texts, the numbering would be different, since the first blessing would be that over the wine, and thus, these would be 2–7):
The veil is a symbol of the married woman. It expresses a dignity, which Isaiah (3:18) calls tiferet, and which was reserved for women of station. Ezekiel (16:20) speaks of "covering with silk" the woman he loves.
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Neck chains were worn by both genders, but only on special occasions, and the bridal neck chains were quite different from others a woman might wear at other times. Rings too were worn by both men and women.
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