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Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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?

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

And if they say no, he'll say, I'd rather not.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

I'd rather not say the bracha, because he's choshesh, that it's a bracha levatala.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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,

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

relating to a wedding.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi 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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Therefore, when attending the weddings of his Sephardic students, he only agrees to recite Be'yat Zom's

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

but not the Sheva Brachos.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Despite his stringent opinion, this is the part I do not know, he does not impose it on his students.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

As it seems, he was willing to let go of his stringent position in order not to embarrass anyone.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Another argument to do away with the Sephardic practice is that they make Shavuot brachas at the end of the Su'udah,

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

which is very strange if they don't have Nisuan yet.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

So that's a little bit difficult.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Maybe being under the Chuppah's Nisuan, maybe wrapping themselves in...

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

In the Talus, like Isfard and Chassan and Kala and Yaki, Chassan and Kala also wrap themselves in Talus.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Maybe that's considered Nisun, so we could rely on that.