[Avodah] standing for chasan and kallah

[Prof. Levine]

At 11:37 AM 08/22/2007, REMT wrote:
>      Apparently, I was not clear. The minhag Yerushalayim I cited, 
> which required the chasan's presence for not saying tachanun, is 
> not for a chasuna minyan; it is for a minyan in shul (usually 
> Shacharis, since Mincha is generally davened at the wedding) on the 
> day on which the wedding will subsequently take place.
>
>EMT

This is not the same thing, but I once witnessed the following. I was 
davening Shachris at Rav Avigdor Miller's shul one morning. After 
Kedushah, during Chazoras Ha Shatz,  Rav Miller quickly wrote out a 
note and gave it to me. Thinking it was for me, I read it. He pointed 
to the fellow behind me who was a new Chosson, so I handed it to him. 
The note said, "Please leave shul so we can say Tachanun." The 
chosson left and we said Tachanun. :-)

I have been told that it is the custom in KAJ in Washington Heights 
for Chassanim to leave shul so that the Tzebor can say Tachanun.

"It is good to be careful that a chasan not attend shul during the 
wedding week, because he would prevent the people from reciting 
Tachanun ... (Mishnah Berurah 131:26)"  This is from Rabbi Yisroel 
Reisman's Forward to Rabbi R. Slater's book Tachanun.

Yitzchok Levine 
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