{"id":1958,"date":"2017-06-05T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hebrew\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2019-01-06T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:29:12","slug":"how-to-celebrate-a-jewish-wedding-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hebrew\/how-to-celebrate-a-jewish-wedding-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Celebrate A Jewish Wedding (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jenna & Shye by Jason Corey from Flickr.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Jewish religion, the wedding day is the most important day of one\u2019s life. It\u2019s even more important than one\u2019s birthday. Because according to Judaism a newborn comes in to the world as only as half a person. Every soul is originally composed of two parts: masculine and feminine. When the soul is getting down to earth it parts. After years of search and pursuit, when the man and woman unite under the marriage oath, the soul is finally complete. He or she becomes a whole soul only when marrying his or her other half.<\/p>\n

Religious Jews believe in the holiness of the match. For them, one\u2019s wedding day is like a personal Yom Kippur<\/a> (a day of atonement). On this day, all their past mistakes can be forgiven. This is why religious Ashkenaz Jews fast during their last day as singles. It\u2019s a short fast \u2013 from the sun rise till the sun set, less than 24 hours \u2013 but it\u2019s enough to prepare the couple for their new future as good Jewish couple. On that day, the bride and groom are no longer individuals, but a family. They are responsible for each other and for their future descendants. The fast\u2019s hardship is not only an atonement for their past mistakes, but also a cleansing opportunity to contemplate their coming future.<\/p>\n

The wedding day is full of traditions and rituals, but the wedding ceremony itself is the most exciting one. The ceremony is the holiest part of the wedding party. Some believe that the ceremony is a unique time, during which the gates of prayer are open and God is listening. If the wedding day is an atonement day \u2013 a day of absolution for the couple \u2013 the wedding ceremony is a good time to pray. Because a prayer that comes from a person cleansed from sins is more likely to come true. A couple who want to can exploit this opportunity and turn to God with all their wishes. Some of the wedding guests enjoy this tradition as well. It is common to approach the bride and groom right after the ceremony ends and ask them for a blessing.<\/p>\n

Other guests drink from the wine. It\u2019s a Jewish custom to drink from a blessed glass of wine during the Kiddush, for example. The Kiddush is a blessing recited over wine or grape juice to sanctify the Shabbat and the Jewish holidays. Every Friday evening, the father of the family (or another man of the family) recites the Kiddush. After the blessing, he drinks from the wine and then passes the glass on to the rest of the participants, who in their turn sip from the wine. A similar thing occurs at a Jewish wedding. The glass of wine (red or white \u2013 it doesn\u2019t make a different) isn\u2019t passed on, but perched quietly under the chuppah. After the ceremony ends, lots of bachelors, and especially bachelorettes, jump on the glass. It\u2019s not only a glass of wine that has been blessed, it\u2019s a glass of wine that has been blessed at a wedding ceremony. As such it is now believed to have a marriage blessing \u2013 according to the superstition an unmarried person who drinks from it will get married in the next coming year.<\/p>\n

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Most secular Jewish people don\u2019t fast at their wedding day (well, at least not for the above reason!). Most of them also don\u2019t pray before the wedding ceremony. But they do observe other customs, like the popular one of drinking from a wedding glass of wine (for advanced Hebrew reading visit this funny post<\/a> about this custom). Some of them have their own family customs, like pay respect to the graves of their lost love ones, or put on tefillin<\/a> on the morning of their wedding day. Religious or not, a wedding day is one of the most exciting day of one\u2019s life. Mazal Tov!<\/p>\n

Text vocabulary<\/u><\/p>\n

Wedding = \u05d7\u05b2\u05ea\u05d5\u05bc\u05e0\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4<\/p>\n

Wedding day = \u05d9\u05d5\u05ba\u05dd \u05e0\u05c5\u05d9\u05e9\u05bc\u05c2\u05d5\u05bc\u05d0\u05c5\u05d9\u05df<\/p>\n

Bachelor = \u05e8\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7<\/p>\n

Bachelors = \u05e8\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05c5\u05d9\u05dd<\/p>\n

Bachelorette = \u05e8\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05d4<\/p>\n

Bachelorettes = \u05e8\u05b7\u05d5\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05d5\u05ba\u05ea<\/p>\n

Bride = \u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05dc\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4<\/p>\n

Groom = \u05d7\u05b8\u05ea\u05b8\u05df<\/p>\n

Fast = \u05e6\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd<\/p>\n

To fast = \u05dc\u05b8\u05e6\u05d5\u05bc\u05dd<\/p>\n

Prayer = \u05ea\u05bc\u05b0\u05e4\u05b4\u05dc\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4<\/p>\n

To pray =\u00a0 \u05dc\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05ea\u05b0\u05e4\u05bc\u05b7\u05dc\u05bc\u05b5\u05dc<\/p>\n

Wine = \u05d9\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05df<\/p>\n

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Related posts:<\/p>\n

How to Celebrate a Jewish Wedding (part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Celebrate a Jewish Wedding (part 3)<\/a><\/p>\n

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