[Avodah] Birchot Habanim and Negiah

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
> I've seen - IIRC, twice - a Rov put his hand on the head
> of an (unrelated) Kallah to give her a Berachah. I assume
> that they did not consider it Derech Chibah.

Let me start off by making two educated guesses about this situation:

A) It was probably around the time of the bedeken; in my experience that's when the brachos are given. If so, it was prior to the kiddushin.

B) Any rav who is close enough to the kallah to give her a bracha would probably have been the Mesader Kiddushin, or would otherwise have been close enough to know whether or not this was a Chupas Nidah, and I'll presume that it was not.

If those two guesses are correct, then the kallah would not have been an ervah to the rav.

I'm not saying that this is enough to justify the negiah, and I'm also not saying that it is *not* enough to justify it. My only point is that neither consideration applies to a father-in-law giving brachos to his daughter-in-law on a typical Friday Night, and so RMYG's story is not relevant to answer it.

Akiva Miller

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