Host (Ten Minute Halacha)

So where does this come from?

So first of all,

if the Talos is going to be on the body of the Chassan and the Kaleh as well, so the question is, does one say a bracha on that Talos?

So in Ya'kut Yosef, he writes, he quotes from the Shearer of the Knesset, that the Sephardic Minag in the 1600s is to cover the Chassan and Kaleh,

with a talus, and he says that the chasson should say a bracha when putting on the talus, even though the minig was not always to actually do that.

In Kaf HaChayim, he writes that the minig of Yerushalayim was that the chasson says a bracha, he puts on the talus normally, and then after he puts on the talus normally, he drapes it over the kala as well.

So they're both sort of wrapped together

in this talus.

Yosef, he says that that's the minhag even if it's done under a chuppah, meaning one might argue, okay, so that now becomes their chuppah.

Maybe they don't need a chuppah.

He says, no, no, the minhag was to do that talus in addition to the chuppah.

I always thought that the basis for that minhag was that when a person buys a talus,

a new Talis, you're supposed to say Shech Yanu.

One of the more common questions I'm asked, someone says, I'm putting on Tcheles for the first time, so should I say Shech Yanu?

So if it's on a Talis Gadol, yes, because you say Shech Yanu on a new Talis Gadol.

If it's on a Talis Kadol, no, because you don't say Shech Yanu on a new Talis Kadol.

What about for the mitzvah of Tcheles?

Do you say Shech Yanu on that?

So the practice generally is we do not recite a Shech Yanu the first time we're doing any random mitzvah, only where there's a tradition to recite a Shech Yanu.

I remember when my niece got married, it was Friday night Shabbat Brachos, she asked me, this is my first time lighting Shabbos candles.