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Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Now Rabbi Yudin speaks under chuppahs, but it used to be a common thing that all rabbis

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

would speak under chuppahs.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

So the question is, when should you time that drasha?

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

At what point during the wedding ceremony should that be?

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

So it used to be very common that rabbis would do it at the very end of the chuppah, after the bruchas nisunas.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Rav Shachter said that's improper, because right after the brachos, it should be immediate that you go to the yichud room.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Rav Shachter quotes the lesson of the maharil, that meritzim esachasim esachal l'cheder yichud,

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

They should run the chasen and kala to the yichud rup.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

Typically, it's not what's done.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

That's a different time in the halacha story.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

But the...

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

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.

Ten Minute Halacha
Yichud at a Sephardi Wedding

that there's going to be such a hefzik.

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.