[Avodah] Birchot Habanim and Negiah

[David Cohen]

RMYG 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.

Most of the time, a kallah on her wedding day, before the chupah, is
in the relatively rare position (for pre-menopausal women) of being
neither an eishes ish nor a niddah.

I'm not saying that it wouldn't be mutar otherwise, but just pointing
out that one can't necessarily bring a proof from this story.

-- D.C.