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Engagements & Weddings

This is an archive of prayers written for, or relevant to, the Jewish life cycle celebration of engagements and wedding days.

Click here to contribute a prayer you have written for an engagement or wedding day.

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תפילה לפני קידושין | Prayer before Kiddushin for Couples, by Sarah Groner

This prayer is based on the personal prayer said on holidays before Torah reading. The grammar has been adapted as plural rather than singular, so that the couple says the prayer together before their ritual of Kiddushin (betrothal). . . .

Categories: Engagements & Weddings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Gratitude, kiddushin, Needing Translation (into English)

Contributor(s): Sarah Groner

שבע ברכות | The Seven Blessings over a Wedding (interpretive translation by Aharon Varady)

A translation of the Seven Blessings shared just in time for Shavuot, and in honor of several of my friend’s weddings. . . .

Categories: Engagements & Weddings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English Translation, eros, interpretive translation, love, marriage, שבועות Shavuot, שבע ברכות sheva brakhot, יחוד yiḥud

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

שבע ברכות לנפשות קשורות | Seven Blessings For Interlinking Souls, by Rabbi Dr. Raysh Weiss and Rabbi Jonah Rank

When Jonah Rank and Raysh Weiss intended to finalize the words of the “Seven Blessings” (Sheva Berakhot, שֶֽׁבַע בְּרָכוֹת) that their friends and family members would offer them on their big day, they attempted to preserve the most widespread Ashkenazic version of these seven nuptial blessings with which their Jewish marital status would be effected. However, they attempted to avoid phrases that would limit the gender or sex of the blessings’ referents. Additionally, they sought to ensure that their blessings focused on the happiness of the occasion at hand. . . .

Categories: Engagements & Weddings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., gender inclusive, North America, שבע ברכות sheva brakhot

Contributor(s): Raysh Weiss and Jonah Rank

הברכה שמח תשמח | Blessing for Joy: A Poetic Rendering of Sheva Brakhah no. 6 (Same’aḥ T’samaḥ), by Daniel Kieval

This is a poetic rendering of the sixth blessing (of the Sheva Brakhot/7 Blessings) for a wedding. It riffs off of themes and language in the Hebrew text of joy, love, and companionship, and invocations of the Garden of Eden, creation, and eternity. Written originally for the wedding of friends; I hope you’ll feel free to adapt and rework it however suits your needs! . . .

Categories: Engagements & Weddings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., blessings, ברכות brakhot, devotional interpretation, English vernacular prayer, interpretive translation, North America, שבע ברכות sheva brakhot, תחינות teḥinot, wedding blessings

Contributor(s): Daniel Kieval

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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