Host (Ten Minute Halacha)

Good morning, everybody.

So I got a call from, or a text from a rabbi last week who was going to be a messiah of Kedusha at his first Sephardic wedding.

So he wanted to know if there's anything he needs to know before he's a messiah of Kedusha at a Sephardic wedding.

So there's a lot to know.

But two things that the first time I was at a Sephardic wedding that struck me as somewhat unusual, I thought I would talk about these two minhagim today.

One is the minhag of Borei Minei Besamim.

Anyone ever see this?

Under Chuppah, that they call Samanah.

with the bracha of b'samen.

No, no one's ever seen it?

No, you've seen it, okay.

And the other is a minhag that I think it's not only Sardim, other people have it as well, and that is that they wrap a talus around the chassan and the kalah.

So I want to talk about each of these minhagim and see what it's based on.

So the funny thing about bar mitzvah, the part that struck me as strange, was that it was after the bar priyagafa.

Now normally, we always instruct the chassan and kalah

that this Bar Epi Agafen that we are reciting is for you.

You're the only ones that are going to drink from this wine.

And therefore, there cannot be any hefsik whatsoever between the Bar Epi Agafen and when you actually drink.

So we have other brachos, but that's all part of the process of the wedding, right?

So you have a Bar Epi Agafen and the Birch HaSeresen, then you have a Bar Epi Agafen, and then they drink.