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So Rav Ejakter Sefer, he quotes Mordechai Javahari, that Rav Vadya was the extra person in the Yichud room at one of his granddaughter's weddings, that even Rav Vadya allowed for such a fake Tzura of Yichud, despite the fact that it's Rav Yitzchak, Rav Vadya's son, who's adamantly against this, says that we're smart, and we don't do...

So I texted Rabbi Javeh Harry this morning.

I asked him, where did you hear that from?

He said that Ezra Dweck told him that at his parents' wedding, Ezra Dweck is a great-grandson of Rabbi Vadya, he said that at his parents' wedding, Rabbi Vadya was hiding in the Yichudum.

Rabbi Javeri writes that though it has become commonplace for Sfardim to perform a Yichud Rum, whether by choice or by peer pressure, one should understand that Sfardic heritage is rich with tradition spanning generations.

Fear of standing out in today's society is no reason to let go and blend in, especially when the Sfardic custom is firmly rooted in halakhic literature and shared among so many different communities, including Iraqis, Persians, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Syrians.

I would agree with that, that L'chara, each community should follow their tradition.

And although an Ashkenazi girl growing up may have always imagined that she would have a Yichud room, probably, you know, there's a lot of things that she imagined her life would look like that are going to change when she marries a Sephardi guy.

And that's, you know, that's part of the beauty of the different cultures that we have within Yiddishkeit.

But L'chara, each community should be proud of their tradition and continue to observe

They're proper traditions.