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So if a Sephardi Talmud will say, can I honor a Rebbe with one of the brachos, under the chuppah, he'll ask, is there going to be yichad at the wedding?
And if they say no, he'll say, I'd rather not.
I'd rather not say the bracha, because he's choshesh, that it's a bracha levatala.
It's interesting, Mordechai Javahari, who's one of the Rosh HaKtus Talmidim, who wrote a little kunshus in advance of his wedding about Deverei Halacha and Deverei Jerush,
relating to a wedding.
So he writes that, not convinced by Rav Havadia, Harav Schechter, in Be'yat Zom, believes that it would be too long of a hefzik to recite Shavar Bach's under the chuppah and only perform the yichud hours later.
Therefore, when attending the weddings of his Sephardic students, he only agrees to recite Be'yat Zom's
but not the Sheva Brachos.
Despite his stringent opinion, this is the part I do not know, he does not impose it on his students.
In fact, on one such occasion, at Birch Samazan of Rav Eich Sultan's wedding, Rav Schechter was passed the microphone to recite one of the Sheva Brachos, and he did.
As it seems, he was willing to let go of his stringent position in order not to embarrass anyone.
meaning when asked in advance, he would say, but given the microphone on the spot, he doesn't want to embarrass anybody to suggest publicly that all these brachas are brachas of Atala, I don't know how any of you could be saying them, so he relies on the sheet of Rav Avad, that you're allowed to say those brachas.
Another argument to do away with the Sephardic practice is that they make Shavuot brachas at the end of the Su'udah,
which is very strange if they don't have Nisuan yet.
If they haven't had Yichud yet, how are they even making a Shavar Brachos after the meal, which is already, meaning it says you're in Shavar Brachos week already.
So that's a little bit difficult.
Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef says that, no, for those purposes, for the purposes of those Brachos, we rely on one of the other Shitos as to what Nisuan is.
Maybe being under the Chuppah's Nisuan, maybe wrapping themselves in...
In the Talus, like Isfard and Chassan and Kala and Yaki, Chassan and Kala also wrap themselves in Talus.
Maybe that's considered Nisun, so we could rely on that.