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What Are The Seven Blessings In A Jewish Wedding?

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    Over the course of the last five episodes of Smashing the Glass, we've gone from the morning before the wedding to standing under the chuppah. A significant component of the ritual is reciting the Sheva Brachot, or "Seven Blessings," a Hebrew term for a series of prayers.

    There is no typical Jewish wedding without the Seven Blessings. The blessing over the wine is the first of the blessings drawn from ancient rabbinic teachings, and the blessings culminate with a communal expression of gladness.

    After seven blessings have been spoken (or sung) over a glass of wine, the happy couple drinks from it, ensuring that they will be blessed for the rest of their lives together. These blessings are often sung to the newlyweds under the chuppah by the Rabbi or Chazan.

    The prayers are read or chanted in both Hebrew and English at numerous ceremonies. These blessings also come in a wide variety of forms in contemporary English.

    Numerous couples have friends or family members read the blessings at their wedding, and some even have the entire wedding party read the blessings aloud. The couple may make their own benediction or have their guests make one in their honour.

    Here are the blessings in their customary Hebrew transliteration and English translation:

    The Seven Benedictions (the Sheva Brachot)

    Traditionally, a rabbi or other religious leader recites the seven blessings under the chuppah. The rabbi, the bridegroom, witnesses, and the bride and groom's parents should all be present for the reading. Even though the blessings are traditionally known as birkhot chattanim, groom's blessing, the groom is not expected to recite them. Given that the benedictions are meant to bless, congratulate, and pray for the groom and bride, Maimonides was shocked to learn that the groom was responsible for reciting them. The groom may recite them alone if no one else knows them.

    The benedictions touch on a wide range of topics, including God's role in creating the world and humanity, the continued existence of the Jewish people and Israel, and the success of the marriage and the couple's future as parents. It dynamically connects the current state of marriage to the historical origin in the Garden of Eden and the eventual end in the return of the Messiah.

    The first three blessings have little to do with the wedding itself, but they set the stage for the rest of the celebratory toasts. The last benediction culminates in a ten-fold chorus of joyous words sung in praise of God, who has brought together the bridegroom and bride in happiness. Below is a list of the seven gifts:

    We hope the rest of your lives together taste as good as this wine does right now. God, our Creator, is blessed because He made grapes and wine.

    Your commitment to one another should constantly serve as motivation and joy for you. Bless the One who brings us this wondrous, colourful world, for He alone deserves all the praise.

    We pray that kindness and understanding accompany you on your journey together. And pray that you will inspire and encourage one another to take courageous, hopeful action in the world. God bless the Generous One who made you both what you are today!

    May the love of your family and friends always reverberate in your hearts, no matter how far you go or how long it's been since you last saw them. Whoever or whatever it is that keeps the love building up can count themselves blessed.

    May the power of your love bring about change, both large and small, in this world. We hope that the community feels the warmth and inspiration that comes from your love for one another. A blessing on the Mother Healer, who, via Her offspring, spreads health and happiness across the globe.

    Wishing you a safe haven within your love where you can retreat and ponder. May the One who provides protection be blessed for making brides happy.

    The Giver of Life is praised because he or she produces such things as awe, joy, music, and happiness. The happy couple deserves nothing but joy, celebration, love, peace, and friendship. May God grant them an abundance of tranquilly. All praise to the Giver of Life, who also gives us peace.

    See our list of Melbourne Wedding Celebrants to help you make an informed decision when saying your vows. 

    The Seven Blessings 

    YHVH, our elo'ah, the cosmic grandeur that forms the fruit of the tree of wisdom, we praise you and thank you.

    You, YHVH, the Majesty of the Cosmos, who gives meaning to all things, are blessed.

    Heavenly Father, Almighty God, Creator of All That Is, you are praised.

    YHVH, our eloah, the Supreme Being, who creates us in our own image, we praise you. You have planted your imaginative capacity within us and provided the means for its unending growth. Thank you, YHVH, for shaping our infinite cosmic potential.

    May the mother who lost her children find comfort in their happy reunion. Tziyon and her children make YHVH happy; may you be blessed.

    Give these caring companions the same joy you bestowed to the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden, as we remember it from our earliest years. You, YHVH, who take pleasure in the union of a bride and groom, are to be praised.

    YHVH, our elo'ah, the cosmic grandeur that shines forth joy and contentment, love and friendship, peace and friendship, the groom and the bride, is blessed. Rapidly, YHVH our elo'ah, let it be heard in all the purposeful Jewish communities and in the gates of the City of Peace: the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the happy voice of bridegrooms from their canopies and the exuberant voice of youths from their feasts of song. To the God who takes pleasure in the union of bride and groom, be praise!

    The Seven Blessings

    Written after the style of Deena Metzger

    Someone should be praised for making grapes and wine. God bless the two of you for coming from generations of people who have questioned their humanity. Having the wine of life poured over you is my wish for you. Keep the human heart's wisdom and vitality close to you always.

    The One is truly blessed. Everything in the universe displays your glory and beauty. Blessed be to you both. The Great Heart is the source of all splendour; may you and your beloved continually bask in its light.

    The one who made us is blessed. To God bless you both. It is my sincere wish that you experience the full range of human emotion, from utter despair to the highest elation. We pray that your union will be sturdy enough to hold you both as you explore the full breadth of your humanity and learn more about yourselves and one another in the soul-making process.

    In order for us to live, love, and continue the human race, we were each formed in God's image, so thank you, Emily and Jose, for the seven blessings you've been given. The two of you are in my prayers. May the paradox of your similarities and differences, the challenge and tremendous joy of being a man and a woman, never cease to amaze and captivate you, and serve as the foundation of your friendship.

    God bless the peacemaker and the reconciler. All of us are quite happy to be here to see this union of traditions. It's a common saying that once the wedding bells ring, everyone gets hitched. I pray that God will bless the two of you as you begin your lives together today.

    Whoever celebrates the fact that their love is as pure and innocent as that first kiss in the Garden of Eden deserves God's eternal blessing. God bless the two of you for making a new world in which to live. We wish that your love lasts forever, that it never gets old, and that you bring new life into the world in every way.

    Blessings upon the one who made happiness, delight, pleasure, love, unity, friendship, and peace possible in the world. A voice of joy, a voice of gladness, the voice of a lover, the sound of a beloved, the triumphant voice of lovers from the canopy, and the voice of youngsters from their feasts of song—may we soon hear these voices in the streets of the city and the paths of the fields. Two loves who find happiness in each other's company are doubly blessed.

    We have compiled a list of our top Wedding Celebrants to help you celebrate your special day.

    A New Seven Blessings from "The New Jewish Wedding"

    Anita Diamant

    With this wine as a symbol and a means to our celebration, we honour the oneness of all people under God's rule.

    We recognise the Oneness of All Things under God's Rule, and we accept that every individual instant and every distinct thing contributes to and reflects this unity.

    Being human is a blessing, and we recognise and honour our shared humanity within God's sovereignty.

    The ability to comprehend this unity and the awe we feel as a man and a woman joined in marriage is a special gift from God, and we acknowledge that it lies within God's purview.

    As the homeless are housed, persecution and oppression are ended, and all people learn to coexist peacefully and in harmony with their natural surroundings, may the entire globe break into song.

    We ask the Divine, the wellspring of all power, to shower this couple with an overflow of love. Let there be nothing but love and friendship between them, and may their love have all the wonder, freshness, and discovery that we picture the first couple's love to have had.

    Joy and gladness, the bridegroom and the bride, delight and cheer, love and harmony, peace and fellowship are today's themes as we celebrate our shared humanity within God's dominion. We pray for the day when these joyful sounds—the voices of lovers, the music of celebratory meals—are heard all around the world.

    All glory to love, and may God bless this union. The happy couple deserves this.

    Secular Seven Benedictions

    To the miraculous earth, which gives us all we need, we give thanks. May the wealth of nature, science, and technology, as well as artistic, musical, literary, and musical expression, serve as daily sources of inspiration for you.

    Inherently humankind is blessed. People are capable of a wide range of positive emotions, including love, friendship, generosity, kindness, and compassion. We pray that you always feel free to share and receive these traits.

    The creation of human beings is a blessing. Humanity is truly astounding in its diversity, with limitless permutations possible from a single basic form. We hope that you take solace in the fact that people from all over the world share many similarities, and that you take joy in the differences that make us all unique.

    All of you are blessed by being here today. Despite all the good things in the world, we are still stuck in a damaged society. We pray that you will be granted the good fortune of living in a world where the hungry are fed, the destitute are housed, the oppressed are set free, and justice and fairness prevail for everyone. Check out our extensive list of Wedding Celebrants to help you tie the knot. 

    Happiness between two lovers is a blessing. We join with this couple in joy today as they freely join together in marriage. God grant you a world where all couples are equally free to marry without fear of reprisal.

    Celebration and happiness are blessings. To mark the conclusion of today's ritual, the glass will be broken, signalling the start of the celebration. As we raise our glasses and yell "Mazel Tov," let's express a wish for the happy couple and for ourselves and our loved ones: May each day be filled with joy, love, friendship, harmony, laughter, and celebration.

    The ability to experience happiness—represented by wine—is a divine gift to humankind. When Jews celebrate, they traditionally drink wine as a symbol of happiness and sanctification. The best of luck to you; may your life be filled to the brim with joy and happiness.

    Another Secular Seven Blessings

    Salutations to the wise human who realises this planet wasn't made with him in mind.

    Anybody who appreciates how far humans have come should be praised.

    God bless the person who loves their neighbour as themselves, and who loves each individual as much as they love their own spouse. Whoever is grateful for human evolution deserves praise.

    And let the childless city be pleased and rejoice at the gathering of her offspring into her bosom. The one who rejoices with Zion over the safe return of her children deserves praise.

    So that the happy couple may experience the legendary delight of paradise, let us bring them our joy. If you can make the groom and bride happy on their wedding day, you deserve praise.

    Joy and gladness, the bridegroom and the bride, exultation, music, pleasure and delight, love and brotherhood, peace and friendship—may they multiply and be praised. And pray that soon the world will hear the sounds of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the happy shouting of bridegrooms returning from their weddings, and the happy shouting of young men and women returning from song-filled feasts, just as they do in the cities of Judea and the streets of Jerusalem. Those who make the happy union of the bride and groom possible deserve praise.

    May God bless the winemakers who created this.

    Seven Wishes for the Couple

    In place of the usual seven benedictions, some non-observant Jews will instead have seven loved ones raise a toast to the couple's happiness and future together. On the other hand, some couples have their members repeat seven principles they believe are crucial to a healthy marriage. Trust, love, communication, honesty, respect, happiness, and compassion are all good examples.

    Other Traditional Jewish Wedding Readings

    From the Talmud (Ketubot 8a)

    O Lord, King of the Universe, blessed are thou, for thou hast made merriment and joy, bride and groom, joy, jubilation, dancing, delight, love, brotherhood, peace, and fellowship. Quickly, O Lord our God, may the voice of bridegroom and bride, the happy voices of bridegrooms from their canopies, and the voices of youth from the feasts of song be heard in the streets of Judah and Jerusalem. You, O Lord, are blessed because you cause the groom to share in the joy of his bride's happiness.

    A Hebrew Wedding Prayer

    Lord, our God, King of the Universe, you are blessed because you are the author of such things as happiness, laughter, love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship. We pray that soon the wedding bells will ring out over Jerusalem and the streets of Judah will echo with the sounds of rejoicing as the grooms shout from under their canopies and the brides sing their hearts out to their new spouses. Bless the Lord, who makes the Groom happy with his bride.

    Song of Solomon, from the Old Testament

    I am the one I love, and I love the one who loves me.

    The voice of my beloved tells me to get up and leave; the winter is done and the rain has stopped. The time for singing has arrived, and the turtledove's song can be heard throughout our land. The fig tree produces figs, and the vines bloom, filling the air with their sweet scent.

    Get up, pretty one, get out of here! My love is mine, and I am my love. Let me see your face, my dove, in the crevices of the rock, in the shelter of the cliff, for your voice is lovely and your face is beautiful. Remember to affix my seal to your heart and my arm, for love is as powerful as death and jealousy as ruthless as the afterlife.

    Its bursts of light are like lightning, bursting into the sky with a fierce fire.

    Love is unabated by either drought or flood. All the money in the world can't buy love, therefore if a man handed his entire fortune to his sweetheart, she'd laugh him right out of town. I am the one I love, and I love the one who loves me.

    A Wedding Reading from Ruth 1:16–17

    Beseech us not to turn back from following after thee; for where thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. To the extent that it is possible, I would like to adopt thee and thy people as my own and worship thee as my God. I shall die and be buried wherever you do. If death must come between us, may the Lord do this to me and more.

    New Jewish and Secular Jewish Wedding Readings

    The True Nature of Soul Mates

    Book of Jewish Mysticism, the Zohar Before coming into this world, each soul and spirit is a unified man and female. When it reaches Earth, it splits in two, giving life to two distinct bodies. The Holy One, blessed be he, who knows all souls and spirits, reunites them as one at the moment of marriage, and the two become as one again, forming the right and left halves of a single person's body and soul.

    Most communities encourage people who know the words to sing along during the final blessing because it is the most particular to the wedding and the couple. It's also the longest, so pick someone who's fluent in Hebrew if you want to have them read them for you. The lines "the sound of joy and the sound of pleasure" (Kol Sasson v'Kol Simcha) are often sung to this lovely tune.

    God is praised for bringing into existence "joy and happiness, Groom and Bride, gladness, jubilation, cheer and delight, love, friendship, harmony and fellowship." Furthermore, it begs God to "let there swiftly be heard in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and the sound of happiness, the sound of a Groom and the sound of a Bride, the sound of the joy of Grooms from under their chuppah, and the sound of the joy of youths from their joyous banquets." To sum it all up, it says, "Blessed are you who bestows happiness upon the Groom with the Bride."

    The Sheva Brachot are also customarily sung at the conclusion of Grace After Meals, so this is another opportunity for the couple to involve their loved ones and show them how much they mean to them by making them an integral part of the wedding.

    Conclusion

    There is no typical Jewish wedding without reciting the Seven Blessings. These blessings are often sung to the newlyweds under the chuppah by the Rabbi or Chazan. The couple may make their own benediction or have their guests make one in their honour. The vows include a list of seven gifts from God, which culminate in a ten-fold chorus of joyous words sung in praise of God. YHVH, our eloah, the Supreme Being, who creates us in our own image, we praise you.

    May the mother who lost her children find comfort in their happy reunion. Let it be heard in all the purposeful Jewish communities and in the gates of the City of Peace. We have compiled a list of our top Wedding Celebrants to help you celebrate your special day. Here are the top seven blessings from "The New Jewish Wedding" for Emily and Jose Feliciano. We wish that your love lasts forever, that it never gets old, and that you bring new life into the world.

    We ask the Divine, the wellspring of all power, to shower this couple with an overflow of love. As the homeless are housed, persecution and oppression are ended, may the entire globe break into song. We pray for the day when all couples are equally free to marry without fear of reprisal. When Jews celebrate, they traditionally drink wine as a symbol of happiness and sanctification. As we raise our glasses and yell "Mazel Tov," let's express a wish for the happy couple and for ourselves and our loved ones.

    May each day be filled with joy, love, friendship, harmony, laughter, and celebration. Blessed are thou, for thou hast made merriment and joy, bride and groom, joy, jubilation, dancing, delight, love, brotherhood, peace, and fellowship. We pray that soon the wedding bells will ring out over Jerusalem and the streets of Judah will echo with the sounds of rejoicing as the grooms shout from under their canopies and the brides sing their hearts out to their new spouses. Most communities encourage people who know the words to sing along during the final blessing because it is the most particular to the wedding and the couple. The Sheva Brachot are also customarily sung at the conclusion of Grace After Meals. This is another opportunity for the couple to involve their loved ones and show them how much they mean to them.

    Content Summary: 

    1. Over the course of the last five episodes of Smashing the Glass, we've gone from the morning before the wedding to standing under the chuppah.
    2. A significant component of the ritual is reciting the Sheva Brachot, or "Seven Blessings," a Hebrew term for a series of prayers.
    3. There is no typical Jewish wedding without the Seven Blessings.
    4. The blessing over the wine is the first of the blessings drawn from ancient rabbinic teachings, and the blessings culminate with a communal expression of gladness.
    5. After seven blessings have been spoken (or sung) over a glass of wine, the happy couple drinks from it, ensuring that they will be blessed for the rest of their lives together.
    6. These blessings are often sung to the newlyweds under the chuppah by the Rabbi or Chazan.
    7. The prayers are read or chanted in both Hebrew and English at numerous ceremonies.
    8. Numerous couples have friends or family members read the blessings at their wedding, and some even have the entire wedding party read the blessings aloud.
    9. The couple may make their own benediction or have their guests make one in their honour.
    10. Here are the blessings in their customary Hebrew transliteration and English translation:THE SEVEN BENEDICTIONS (THE SHEVA BRACHOT) Traditionally, a rabbi or other religious leader recites the seven blessings under the chuppah.
    11. The rabbi, the bridegroom, witnesses, and the bride and groom's parents should all be present for the reading.
    12. Even though the blessings are traditionally known as birkhot chattanim, groom's blessing, the groom is not expected to recite them.
    13. Given that the benedictions are meant to bless, congratulate, and pray for the groom and bride, Maimonides was shocked to learn that the groom was responsible for reciting them.
    14. It dynamically connects the current state of marriage to the historical origin in the Garden of Eden and the eventual end in the return of the Messiah.
    15. The first three blessings have little to do with the wedding itself, but they set the stage for the rest of the celebratory toasts.
    16. The last benediction culminates in a ten-fold chorus of joyous words sung in praise of God, who has brought together the bridegroom and bride in happiness.
    17. Below is a list of the seven gifts:We hope the rest of your lives together taste as good as this wine does right now.
    18. God, our Creator, is blessed because He made grapes and wine.
    19. Your commitment to one another should constantly serve as motivation and joy for you.
    20. And pray that you will inspire and encourage one another to take courageous, hopeful action in the world.
    21. God bless the Generous One who made you both what you are today!May the love of your family and friends always reverberate in your hearts, no matter how far you go or how long it's been since you last saw them.
    22. May the power of your love bring about change, both large and small, in this world.
    23. We hope that the community feels the warmth and inspiration that comes from your love for one another.
    24. A blessing on the Mother Healer, who, via Her offspring, spreads health and happiness across the globe.
    25. Wishing you a safe haven within your love where you can retreat and ponder.
    26. May the One who provides protection be blessed for making brides happy.
    27. The Giver of Life is praised because he or she produces such things as awe, joy, music, and happiness.
    28. The happy couple deserves nothing but joy, celebration, love, peace, and friendship.
    29. All praise to the Giver of Life, who also gives us peace.
    30. See our list of Melbourne Wedding Celebrants to help you make an informed decision when saying your vows.
    31. THE SEVEN BLESSINGS  YHVH, our elo'ah, the cosmic grandeur that forms the fruit of the tree of wisdom, we praise you and thank you.
    32. YHVH, our eloah, the Supreme Being, who creates us in our own image, we praise you.
    33. You have planted your imaginative capacity within us and provided the means for its unending growth.
    34. Thank you, YHVH, for shaping our infinite cosmic potential.
    35. May the mother who lost her children find comfort in their happy reunion.
    36. Tziyon and her children make YHVH happy; may you be blessed.
    37. Give these caring companions the same joy you bestowed to the first man and woman in the Garden of Eden, as we remember it from our earliest years.
    38. You, YHVH, who take pleasure in the union of a bride and groom, are to be praised.
    39. YHVH, our elo'ah, the cosmic grandeur that shines forth joy and contentment, love and friendship, peace and friendship, the groom and the bride, is blessed.
    40. Rapidly, YHVH our elo'ah, let it be heard in all the purposeful Jewish communities and in the gates of the City of Peace: the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride, the happy voice of bridegrooms from their canopies and the exuberant voice of youths from their feasts of song.
    41. To the God who takes pleasure in the union of bride and groom, be praise! THE SEVEN BLESSINGS Written after the style of Deena MetzgerSomeone should be praised for making grapes and wine.
    42. God bless the two of you for coming from generations of people who have questioned their humanity.
    43. Having the wine of life poured over you is my wish for you.
    44. Keep the human heart's wisdom and vitality close to you always.
    45. Everything in the universe displays your glory and beauty.
    46. Blessed be to you both.
    47. The Great Heart is the source of all splendour; may you and your beloved continually bask in its light.
    48. The one who made us is blessed.
    49. It is my sincere wish that you experience the full range of human emotion, from utter despair to the highest elation.
    50. We pray that your union will be sturdy enough to hold you both as you explore the full breadth of your humanity and learn more about yourselves and one another in the soul-making process.
    51. In order for us to live, love, and continue the human race, we were each formed in God's image, so thank you, Emily and Jose, for the seven blessings you've been given.
    52. The two of you are in my prayers.
    53. May the paradox of your similarities and differences, the challenge and tremendous joy of being a man and a woman, never cease to amaze and captivate you, and serve as the foundation of your friendship.
    54. It's a common saying that once the wedding bells ring, everyone gets hitched.
    55. I pray that God will bless the two of you as you begin your lives together today.
    56. Whoever celebrates the fact that their love is as pure and innocent as that first kiss in the Garden of Eden deserves God's eternal blessing.
    57. God bless the two of you for making a new world in which to live.
    58. We wish that your love lasts forever, that it never gets old, and that you bring new life into the world in every way.
    59. Blessings upon the one who made happiness, delight, pleasure, love, unity, friendship, and peace possible in the world.
    60. A voice of joy, a voice of gladness, the voice of a lover, the sound of a beloved, the triumphant voice of lovers from the canopy, and the voice of youngsters from their feasts of song—may we soon hear these voices in the streets of the city and the paths of the fields.
    61. Two loves who find happiness in each other's company are doubly blessed.
    62. We have compiled a list of our top Wedding Celebrants to help you celebrate your special day.
    63. With this wine as a symbol and a means to our celebration, we honour the oneness of all people under God's rule.
    64. We recognise the Oneness of All Things under God's Rule, and we accept that every individual instant and every distinct thing contributes to and reflects this unity.
    65. Being human is a blessing, and we recognise and honour our shared humanity within God's sovereignty.
    66. As the homeless are housed, persecution and oppression are ended, and all people learn to coexist peacefully and in harmony with their natural surroundings, may the entire globe break into song.
    67. We ask the Divine, the wellspring of all power, to shower this couple with an overflow of love.
    68. Let there be nothing but love and friendship between them, and may their love have all the wonder, freshness, and discovery that we picture the first couple's love to have had.
    69. Joy and gladness, the bridegroom and the bride, delight and cheer, love and harmony, peace and fellowship are today's themes as we celebrate our shared humanity within God's dominion.
    70. We pray for the day when these joyful sounds—the voices of lovers, the music of celebratory meals—are heard all around the world.
    71. All glory to love, and may God bless this union.
    72. The happy couple deserves this.
    73. May the wealth of nature, science, and technology, as well as artistic, musical, literary, and musical expression, serve as daily sources of inspiration for you.
    74. Inherently humankind is blessed.
    75. People are capable of a wide range of positive emotions, including love, friendship, generosity, kindness, and compassion.
    76. The creation of human beings is a blessing.
    77. We hope that you take solace in the fact that people from all over the world share many similarities, and that you take joy in the differences that make us all unique.
    78. Despite all the good things in the world, we are still stuck in a damaged society.
    79. We pray that you will be granted the good fortune of living in a world where the hungry are fed, the destitute are housed, the oppressed are set free, and justice and fairness prevail for everyone.
    80. Happiness between two lovers is a blessing.
    81. We join with this couple in joy today as they freely join together in marriage.
    82. Celebration and happiness are blessings.
    83. To mark the conclusion of today's ritual, the glass will be broken, signalling the start of the celebration.
    84. As we raise our glasses and yell "Mazel Tov," let's express a wish for the happy couple and for ourselves and our loved ones: May each day be filled with joy, love, friendship, harmony, laughter, and celebration.
    85. The ability to experience happiness—represented by wine—is a divine gift to humankind.
    86. When Jews celebrate, they traditionally drink wine as a symbol of happiness and sanctification.
    87. The best of luck to you; may your life be filled to the brim with joy and happiness.
    88. Salutations to the wise human who realises this planet wasn't made with him in mind.
    89. Whoever is grateful for human evolution deserves praise.
    90. So that the happy couple may experience the legendary delight of paradise, let us bring them our joy.
    91. If you can make the groom and bride happy on their wedding day, you deserve praise.
    92. Joy and gladness, the bridegroom and the bride, exultation, music, pleasure and delight, love and brotherhood, peace and friendship—may they multiply and be praised.
    93. And pray that soon the world will hear the sounds of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the happy shouting of bridegrooms returning from their weddings, and the happy shouting of young men and women returning from song-filled feasts, just as they do in the cities of Judea and the streets of Jerusalem.
    94. Those who make the happy union of the bride and groom possible deserve praise.
    95. May God bless the winemakers who created this.
    96. In place of the usual seven benedictions, some non-observant Jews will instead have seven loved ones raise a toast to the couple's happiness and future together.
    97. Quickly, O Lord our God, may the voice of bridegroom and bride, the happy voices of bridegrooms from their canopies, and the voices of youth from the feasts of song be heard in the streets of Judah and Jerusalem.
    98. You, O Lord, are blessed because you cause the groom to share in the joy of his bride's happiness.
    99. Lord, our God, King of the Universe, you are blessed because you are the author of such things as happiness, laughter, love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship.
    100. We pray that soon the wedding bells will ring out over Jerusalem and the streets of Judah will echo with the sounds of rejoicing as the grooms shout from under their canopies and the brides sing their hearts out to their new spouses.
    101. Bless the Lord, who makes the Groom happy with his bride.
    102. The time for singing has arrived, and the turtledove's song can be heard throughout our land.
    103. My love is mine, and I am my love.
    104. Remember to affix my seal to your heart and my arm, for love is as powerful as death and jealousy as ruthless as the afterlife.
    105. Its bursts of light are like lightning, bursting into the sky with a fierce fire.
    106. To the extent that it is possible, I would like to adopt thee and thy people as my own and worship thee as my God.
    107. I shall die and be buried wherever you do.
    108. If death must come between us, may the Lord do this to me and more.
    109. Book of Jewish Mysticism, the Zohar Before coming into this world, each soul and spirit is a unified man and female.
    110. The Holy One, blessed be he, who knows all souls and spirits, reunites them as one at the moment of marriage, and the two become as one again, forming the right and left halves of a single person's body and soul.
    111. Most communities encourage people who know the words to sing along during the final blessing because it is the most particular to the wedding and the couple.
    112. It's also the longest, so pick someone who's fluent in Hebrew if you want to have them read them for you.
    113. The lines "the sound of joy and the sound of pleasure" (Kol Sasson v'Kol Simcha) are often sung to this lovely tune.
    114. God is praised for bringing into existence "joy and happiness, Groom and Bride, gladness, jubilation, cheer and delight, love, friendship, harmony and fellowship."
    115. Furthermore, it begs God to "let there swiftly be heard in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and the sound of happiness, the sound of a Groom and the sound of a Bride, the sound of the joy of Grooms from under their chuppah, and the sound of the joy of youths from their joyous banquets."
    116. To sum it all up, it says, "Blessed are you who bestows happiness upon the Groom with the Bride.
    117. "The Sheva Brachot are also customarily sung at the conclusion of Grace After Meals, so this is another opportunity for the couple to involve their loved ones and show them how much they mean to them by making them an integral part of the wedding.

    Frequently Asked Questions About Jewish Wedding

    It blesses God for creating “joy and happiness, Groom and Bride, gladness, jubilation, cheer and delight, love, friendship, harmony and fellowship.” It also prays to G-d, to “let there speedily be heard in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and the sound of happiness, the sound of a Groom

    The number seven has a huge importance in the Jewish culture, it symbolize the wholeness and integrity that can not be achieving when they are apart. After that the bride takes place standing next to the right of the groom.

    What Is a Wedding Blessing? A wedding blessing acts as a declaration of approval of the union, especially in cultures where family and community are important. Religious wedding blessings typically appeal to a higher power to watch over the couple and lead them to a long and prosperous marriage.

    THE BLESSING of the LORD is God's original plan for you. Contrary to popular belief, He doesn't want you sick, broke and lonely. He wants to make you rich in every area of life - your health, finances, relationships, and more.

    Seven blessings are traditionally recited during a Jewish wedding after a couple shares vows and exchanges rings. The words that are spoken are meant to link the couple to faith in God as Creator of the world, Bestower of joy and love, and the ultimate Redeemer.

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