Mussar in Halacha
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Loading ...Today’s Question: Mussar in Halacha
Where does it say in any of our Law books that one must study Mussar every single day?!
Yesterday’s Question: Perfect Combination: Wine and Marriage
The Gemara in Pesachim (49a) describes marriage as the combination of Invey Hagefen, two grape vines. Why grapes? The Gemara in Berachos (50b) states that the custom was to pour wine back and forth before the Chosson and Kalla. Why wine?
Our Answer:
2 beautiful answers in case you ever need to speak at a Sheva Berachos!
The Ben Ish Chai explains that normally when food and liquids age, they get spoiled and ruined. But wine has the special quality that it gets better with time! We know that people will pay fortunes for vintage aged wine! So too, we bless the newlyweds that their marriage should have the quality of wine, it should always get better with time. The relationship and love should continuously deepen and become stronger!
R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach offers another thought. If you eat an apple, the berachah pronounced is “borey pri ha’aitz”. If you liquefy it into apple-juice the berachah is downgraded to sha’hakol. So too with all fruits when they are blended their berachah is not as great as when they were a fruit. This is not the case by grapes! When you blend grapes they become more chashuv, significant and their berachah is thus upgraded to “berey pri hagafen”! We give a berachah to the Chasson and Kalla that they too should blend together and grow upward through the experience.
I add to all this that this may very may be hinted as well by all of the wine which we pour down the Chasson and Kalla’s throats from the time that they stand under the Chupa and throughout all of the Sheva berachos! May they merit the blessing of wine. L’Chaim!
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