Podcast Appearances
One could argue, could counter-argue, that there's no fundamental problem of Havsik, but there's still a, even Birch HaShavach should have some, Sheichus should have some connection to the thing that you are being Meshabeach about, meaning you don't just say a bracha on a rainbow right now, even though you haven't seen a rainbow in two weeks, right?
Birch HaShavach still connects in some way to that which you are being Meshabeach about.
Rav Shechter in B'ik Ve'etzon, Simulam Etesos Gimel,
points out that we actually do have to be careful
about a hefzik between the Birch Nisuan and the Yichud of Shechta, therefore opposes the practice of having a Chazen Sing Shir Amalos at that point, after the Nisuan and before the Yichud, and the practice to hold a drush at that point, after the Birch Nisuan and before the Yichud.
It used to be a common thing that rabbis would speak under chuppahs.
Now Rabbi Yudin speaks under chuppahs, but it used to be a common thing that all rabbis
would speak under chuppahs.
So the question is, when should you time that drasha?
At what point during the wedding ceremony should that be?
So it used to be very common that rabbis would do it at the very end of the chuppah, after the bruchas nisunas.
Rav Shachter said that's improper, because right after the brachos, it should be immediate that you go to the yichud room.
Rav Shachter quotes the lesson of the maharil, that meritzim esachasim esachal l'cheder yichud,
They should run the chasen and kala to the yichud rup.
Typically, it's not what's done.
They dance slowly, and that's after lots of hugs and mazal toves happen under the chuppah before the team of single girls and their mothers run to the chuppah to pray.
That's a different time in the halacha story.
But nevertheless, Rav Shachter likes to quote that, Rav Shachter is even mocked not to say one of the brachos under the chuppah if there's not going to be yichud soon after because he holds a shash brachol of Atalda.
that there's going to be such a hefzik.