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

Moshe Y. Gluck mgluck at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 17:14:41 PDT 2011


On 2/11/2011 9:51 PM, Poppers, Michael wrote:
> I have a possibly-related Q: at least some of the many who stand for that
last line first stand for all of "Mizmor l'David Havu laH'" (and then sit
down prior to the start of "L'cha Dodi") -- why the custom to stand for that
mizmor?

R' ZS:
AIUI, because it contains Hashem's name 18 times.
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There's also some significance to the fact that it says "Kol Hashem" seven
times. I'm not sure what, though.

KT,
MYG




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