Host (Ten Minute Halacha)

Then you have a Bar Epi Agafen and the six other brachos, and then they drink.

But to just stick something else in the middle...

For an Ashkenazi person, it strikes us as a little bit strange.

So Sephardim do say the bracha of besamin under the chuppah, and the reason is it's meant to complement the bracha that they say as a way of praising Hashem, you know, for as many things as they can praise Him for in this very auspicious moment.

Lest you think, well, wait a second, this is a hafzik, you can't do this.

The Rambam in Hilchot Seishos, Paragir, Alachadal, the Rambam writes,

that there are some places that have a minaret that they bring a hadas together with the wine, that they say the first of the seven brachos, which is bar piyakafen, then they make a bar min ebi samin, and then they make the next six brachos of the seven brachos.

The Torah quotes this in Nebuchadnezzar, the Shulchan Aruch Hamakutzer, which is Rav Yitzchak Yosef's Kitzer Shulchan Aruch,

I think, oh no, no, that's something else.

Writes that the yemenite minag is to follow the Rambam directly, but the Syrians, Rabbi Mansour says that the Syrians say the bracha of Besamim between the Haggafen and the bracha of Birch HaSeirisin.

I said Haggafen, not Haggafen, because by his father it's Haggafen also, they're not going to say it like that.

So that they do it, but also, after Rabbi Haggafen, but before another bracha, but not in the Birch HaSeirisin, but in the Birch HaSeirisin,

And that's based on Rav Sadyagon.

So essentially, two different Sephardic minhagim, both of which will make an Ashkenazi cringe, right?

Meaning one with the Baruch B'Av, after the Baruch B'Av, and before the next six brachos of Shevar brachos.

And the other early, but also between the Baruch B'Av and the Birchas Ereson.

So the Archa Shulchan writes, He says it's not our minhag,

by Ashkenazim.

He says it could be that they do this, because it should be only seven brachos, no less, no more.

Now I'm not sure what he means by that.