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

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' MB:
>> 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".

R' ZS:
> Surely everyone stands at least for the last verse, where she's welcomed
> in.

R' MB:
> 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.

Until the last verse we're still talking to each other, saying,
"Let's go greet her!" She doesn't come in until the last verse, "Bo'ee,
Ateres Baalah."

Halachically, this jives with Nusach Sefard, which is Mekabel Shabbos at
"Bo'ee Challah Shabbos Malkesa."


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

Unlike R'MF, who used to turn towards the west wall. 

KT,
MYG