Host (Ten Minute Halacha)

What's done by Kavanah?

That Ashkenazim specifically don't have this minag?

Because then it would be eight brachos instead of seven?

Or that Svard and Dafka do have this minag, so that it should be exactly seven brachos, not counting the part of Piagofen.

I assume he means that for Ashkenazim we specifically don't have this minhag, because if we're going to say Bar Prihagav and plus the six brachos that it says in the Gemara K'subas that you're supposed to say, that's already seven brachos, and we'd rather not have eight brachos under the chuppah.

So that's one minhag.

The other minhag is more widespread and has spread beyond Sephardic circles.

is to use a talis.

Now, people use talisim differently under a chuppah.

You ever go under, I'm under a lot of chuppahs.

So you go under a chuppah, you look up.

You always want to make sure there's a chuppah there, because a lot of times the florist, you know, made this beautiful floral arrangement, and the chuppah is very creative, but there's no actual chuppah.

Like, you know, like all of it was to, the idea of the flowers, I guess, is to decorate the chuppah and make it look nice.

But there's got to be a chuppah.

There's got to be something overhead.

But there is a fairly common practice that people use a talus in some form or another.

So some people wrap the talus around the chassan and the kala.

Some people hold the talus up on poles.

And some people have the talus hanging above them as the chuppah.

And some people don't have a talus at all.