[Avodah] To Stand or Not to Stand for a Chosson and Kallah

[Isaac Balbin]

> 
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 06:20:20PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 1/11/2011 6:04 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>>> Why is it that everyone stands for the chasan and kallah at a wedding,
>>> but so few of us have a minhag to stand for Lekha Dodi? There we have
>>> a kalah, and in some nusachos, she is identified with "Shabbas Malkesa".
> 
>> Surely everyone stands at least for the last verse, where she's welcomed
>> in.
> 
> But if you stand for a regular kallah, why not for an idiomatic kallah
> who is explicitly called a malkesa? She is the same kalah/malkesah in
> the first verse as when we explicitly say do on the first.


The Rav, RYBS used to go towards the door for Boi VeShalom, according to R' Schachter.

I'd suggest this issue is about whether the Rambam's dinim on Melech only referred to
a Bosor V'Dom. Perhaps that's why some sit for Shalom Aleichem and other stand.
Avraham stood and ran.