Two halves of one neshamah, a personal Yom Kippur, and the chuppah under the open sky.
In this part
- The Zohar, through our Rebbe’s letter of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5710: two halves of one neshamah finding each other again.
- The wedding day as a personal Yom Kippur: teshuvah, Tehillim, extra tzedakah, and Minchah with Al Chet.
- The neshamos of three generations of forebears come to the chasunah.
- Our Rebbe’s chasunah, 14 Kislev 5689 in Warsaw, and the maamar Lecha Dodi a Chabad chosson says at the kabbolas panim.
- The chuppah outdoors, the seven circuits, and a moment under the chuppah to daven for everything.
Sources
- Zohar III 7b
- Our Rebbe, letter of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5710
- Toras Menachem vol. 10 p. 199
- Shulchan Aruch EH 61:1
- Sichah, Shabbos Korach 5718
- Mazal Tov (R' N.D. Dubov), ch. 6
- Mazal Tov ch. 6
- Sefer HaMinhagim
- Sefer HaMinhagim, Weddings
- Hisvaaduyos 5744 vol. 4 p. 2242
- Sefer HaMinhagim, Weddings (note)
- Letter of R' Eliyahu Chaim Althoiz (chabad.org)
- Farbrengen, 14 Kislev 5714
- Rema EH 61:1
- Igros Kodesh vol. 19 p. 412
- Toras Menachem vol. 2 p. 246
- Mazal Tov ch. 7
- Our Rebbe's wedding letter (chabad.org)
- Our Rebbe, yechidus for chassanim & kallos (Hisvaaduyos 5744 vol. 2 p. 899)
Review questions
- What is a marriage, according to the Zohar quoted in our Rebbe’s letter of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5710?Two halves of one neshamah finding each other again. They are not identical halves: each brings what the other lacked.
- Why is the wedding day a personal Yom Kippur?The chosson and kallah are forgiven. It is a day of teshuvah, regret and firm resolutions; they fast and say Al Chet at Minchah (Shulchan Aruch EH 61:1).
- Why does the chuppah stand outside, under the open sky?For the bracha that their children be as many as the stars (Rema EH 61:1).
- What do the seven circuits express?The kallah draws a world of their own, seven like the days of the week, and then the two of them stand at its center like a king and a queen.
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