[Avodah] Birchot Habanim and Negiah

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From: "kennethgmiller at juno.com" _kennethgmiller at juno.com_ 
(mailto:kennethgmiller at juno.com) 


>  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.[--RMG]


.....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.


Akiva  Miller

 
>>>>>
 
IIRC in the book *The Bamboo Cradle* the father (who adopted a Chinese girl  
and subsequently the family became frum -- if you haven't read it, you should, 
 very inspiring) writes that he was told he could never touch his daughter -- 
 except on her wedding day, when he bensht her I guess for the first and last 
 time.  (There are more lenient opinions re adopted children -- I mention  
this only in the context of a kallah receiving a bracha)  I don't think he  
mentions who gave him that psak.
 

--Toby Katz
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